A state legislator of Maine described the State’s policy on transgender participation in the “end” of girls and women’s sports and warned that millions could cost millions in federal funds.
The state representative Laurel Libby, a republican of Auburn, appeared in “The Ricky Cobb Show” of Outkick and reacted to the dispute of last week between President Donald Trump and the governor of Maine Janet Mills. The two heads of transgender participation of the State in the sports of girls and women after the president signed an executive order to prohibit such rules.
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Maine’s transgender athlete policy has been criticized. (Pak Gazette)
The rules of the Association of Directors of Maine declared that a possible student athlete must “declare his gender identity to his school of members if his gender identity differs from the sex of the student assigned to birth.” The rules declared that the school has “the only authority to determine the assignment of gender identity for the purposes of athletic registry and participation in events sponsored by MPA”.
In addition, “medical records or official documents will not be requested to establish a student’s gender identity.”
“That is the policy that Governor Mills is defending against President Trump,” Libby said. “It is very extreme. It is an atypical case even among other states that have similar policies. And it is an extreme position that the main ones do not admit.
“Not only is this extreme policy supporting, its position could cost the State $ 250 million for Maine schools and that is the money we need to provide education to Maine’s children. It is a two for how this hits our state and Our state.
President Donald Trump and the governor of Maine Janet Mills faced Friday at the White House for the fulfillment of the executive order. (Pool through AP/Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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Libby described the “incredibly broad” policy and pointed out a problem that the State has recently seen about a transgender athlete who won a state title in the pole jump of the girls.
The executive order of “No Men In Women’s Sports” was signed earlier this month. Trump promised to retain federal funds from Maine’s schools if they violate their federal order.
The Department of Education launched an investigation of the Title IX on Maine.
Mills said in a statement on Friday that he was defending the “rule of law.”
“No president, Republican or Democrat, can retain federal funds authorized and appropriate by Congress and paid by Maine’s taxpayers in an attempt to force someone to fulfill their will. It is a violation of our Constitution and our laws, which, which I took an oath to defend, “he said.
“Maine can be one of the first states to undergo investigation by his administration, but we will not be the last. Today, the president of the United States has attacked a particular group in a particular issue that Maine’s law He has approached. so “
Transgender and divided flag with the runway end line. (Getty images)
Mills added that he imagined that the result of the investigation was “predetermined” and that it was not what is happening in the field of play, but “if a president can force compliance with his will, without taking into account the state of right that governs our nation.
