Maine’s attorney general Aaron Frey, addressed the lawsuit filed against his State by the United States Department of Justice on Wednesday on the position of the State with respect to transgender athletes in the sports of girls and women.
In an interview with CNN, Frey defended the continuous support of his status to trans inclusion, insisting that “there are no security problems” to allow biological men to compete with girls.
“However, we have been working to understand what, if any problem exists with participation. If some of the damages that are really alleged are of some concern and what we have identified, there are really no security concerns,” Frey said.
Frey also said that “there are no concerns” about trans athletes that “simply choose” to compete in the girls category.
“There are no concerns about people who only choose which gender want to participate. So it is also really long after working in whether there is any problem here that guarantees this intrusion of the federal government about what is happening in Maine’s schools,” Frey said.
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The national consciousness of Trans athletes in Maine was turned on when state representative Laurel Libby identified a pole jumping jumper who won a girl’s competition by Grelyly High School after competing in the category of boys in previous seasons.
Security concerns about trans inclusion in girls and female sports increased nationwide after the former volleyball player from Payton McNabb high school suffered a brain shock, cerebral bleeding and permanent cervical whipper after being beaten in the face with a volleyball hit by a trans athlete.
Even so, Frey insists that competitive concerns and security are not at the radar of Democratic officials in Maine, claiming that they are currently aware of two Trans athletes compete in girls sports in the state.
“There is only a small number of trans students participating in sports, that number of two is all we have invented,” Frey said. He also suggested that Maine is following state and federal law by allowing trans inclusion in girls’ sports.
Maine Gov Janet Mills responds to the demand of the Department of Justice against its State on Trans athletes in girls’ sports
“Our position is that Title IX, consisting of Maine’s Human Rights Law, so the Federal and State Law, it supports that trans girls may participate in high school sports according to their gender identity,” Frey said. “So, my statement is that Maine is following Title IX, Maine is following Maine’s human rights law.”
United States Attorney General Pam Bondi He announced the lawsuit at a press conference on Wednesday morning.
Bondi said they were looking for a court order and that the titles returned to girls that “legitimately” they won competitions in which trans athletes participated. The Department of Justice accused the State of “openly and challenging floating the federal law against federal discrimination for Fox policies that require girls to compete in boys in athletic competition designated exclusively for girls”, according to a complaint for Fox news.
“By prioritizing gender identity over biological reality, Maine’s policies deprive the athletes of the girls of fair competition, they are denied the equal athletic opportunities and expose them to the greatest risks of physical injuries and psychological damage,” the complaint added.
The complaint also said that the United States will seek “a ruling that grants a judicial order and damages the relief of the violations of the defendant of Title IX and the federal financing contracts that signed promising to comply with Title IX and its implementation regulations.”
The governor of Maine, Janet Mills, issued a statement later on Wednesday in response to the lawsuit.
“Today is the last except expected in an unprecedented campaign to press the State of Maine to ignore the Constitution and abandon the rule of law. This issue has never been about school sports or the protection of women and girls, as stated, it is about the rights of the states and defend the state of law against a federal government in the restructuring of its will, instead of being the life of the law of the law of the law of the law. Federal has been acting illegally “Read of Tatement in part.
Meanwhile, a School district In Maine he is moving to comply with Trump instead of the state on the subject. The MSAD #70 School Board voted unanimously on Monday night to comply with title IX, and Superintendent Tyler Putnam told Pak Gazette Digital that it will amend district policies to prevent Trans athletes from competing in girls sports.
