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The governor of Maine, Janet Mills, will be one of the recipients of the Human Rights Award of Robert F. Kennedy’s human rights. A ceremony will take place next month.
Mills will receive the prize due to his battle with the administration of President Donald Trump about the inclusion of transgender athletes in women’s and female sports.
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The governor of Maine Janet Mills attends the Pen America Spring literary gala in the American Museum of Natural History on Thursday, May 15, 2025 in New York. (Andy Kropa/Inverion/AP)
“I feel honored to receive this recognition appointed by former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, a heroic civil rights champion and the rule of law that governs our nation and inspires the world,” Mills said in a press release.
“Throughout my career as a district prosecutor, Attorney General, and now as governor of Maine, I have fought to defend the constitution of my State and my country. I feel it is the responsibility of all Americans to speak in defense of their principles, for the rights of others, and by the rule of the law that protects us all. As a member of the generation of the Americans who were inspired by Robert F. Kennedy’s care Generation of the generation of the generation of the generation, which really, that gives me the penalty, what really is humanity, and that gives me according to the generation of the generation, and that gives me according to the generation of the generation, and that I am really of the generation, which is a member of the generation, and that agrees, what gives me the generation, and that it is, what I am.
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Democratic governor Janet Mills delivered her state state speech, on January 30, 2024, in the Chamber of States in Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, Archive)
Mills, together with the lawyer of the Department of Justice, Elizabeth Oyer and the immigration and reform activist Jeanette Vizguerra, received the prize “for her moral courage and her willingness to act on her convictions, even with great personal risk”.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) sued the State of Maine in April when Mills reduced the president’s executive order to keep men out of girls and women’s sports. Maine’s transgender participation policies have been a source of dismay, which leads to a public dispute between Trump and Mills during a meeting with the governors in February. The demand of the USDA was one of the few filed against the State.
The USDA announced a freezing of funds and a review of federal funds to Maine for the State that supposedly refuses to provide equal opportunities to women and girls in educational programs. The USDA secretary, Brooke Rollins, said at the time the State must accept protecting female athletes from trans inclusion before financing is restored.
Maine sued USDA for freezing funds and accused the “retention of funds used to feed children in schools, child care centers and programming after school, as well as disabled adults in congregated environments.”
President Donald Trump signs an executive order that prohibits transgender athletes to compete in female sporting events or girls, in the east room of the White House, on Wednesday, February 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
The State withdrew the lawsuit against the administration, since the USDA agreed to restore federal funds earlier this month.
Maine still faces other legal battles on the subject.
