Attorney General Pam Bondi criticized the governor of Maine Janet Mills on Wednesday after the Democratic legislator minimited the transgender athlete’s controversy in his state.
Bondi said in “America’s Newsroom” with Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino that Mills was “very wrong” to simply brush the problem of transgender athletes because there were only two cases in the state. Maine has refused to alter their policies to keep biological men out of girls and women’s sports.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi observes during a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, on Monday, March 24, 2025. (Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
“First, say that only two are shocking. We gave two examples … First, these are boys in the girls’ locker room,” Bondi said. “One is too much. It is ridiculous what he said, and not only affects a young woman, but affects the entire team. It affects the entire team, all the sport within that school.
“These young women cannot compete due to a child. The child in 2024 arrived in 43ยบ in its category in athletics.
Mills appeared in “Morning Joe” of MSNBC to discuss his battle with several departments of the Trump administration, which began when the State refused to comply with the executive order of “No men in female sports” of President Donald Trump who prohibited biological men in girls and women’s sports.
The appearance occurred after a judge prohibited the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) from freezing funds for Maine. Everything was derived from the refusal of the State to comply with the rules of Title IX.
PAM Bondi recognizes family and friends who attend while offering opening comments during a hearing of the Senate Judicial Committee on his nomination to be the United States Attorney General on January 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Jack Gruber / USA Today Network through IMAGN images)
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“The Constitution requires the Executive Director to be responsible for the laws to be executed faithfully, not to make the laws, not to invent the laws or reinterpret the laws by tweet or Instagram post or press release or executive order. It is not allowed to do that.”
Mills recalled the letters he received from the Department of Education, the USDA and the Department of Health and Human Services. She described a letter of April 2 by USDA secretary, Brooke Rollins, as “quite frightening” and said some described him as a “rescue note.”
In the letter, the Administration threatened to cut funds for Maine due to the continuous subsidy of the state of biological men in girls and women’s sports.
“The next day, because there are perhaps as two transgender athletes that compete in the Maine schools at this time, they decided to close the funds for our school nutrition program, the school lunch program, completely, in which 172,000 Maine schoolchildren trust their school meals. That made no sense,” said Mills.
Democratic governor Janet Mills delivered her speech on the state of the State on January 30, 2024 at the State of the State in Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, Archive)
He added that the demands against the State “were not rational.”
Bondi announced a civil lawsuit from the Department of Justice against Maine for his refusal to prohibit the transgender athletes of women’s sports.
