The Office of the Department of Health and Human Services of the United States (HHS) of Civil Rights (OCR) announced on Monday that the Department of Education of Maine, the Association of Directors of Maine and Grelyly High School are violating title IX.
The Trump administration expanded its Title IX research on Maine last week, citing violations of the executive order of President Trump that indicates that biological men cannot compete in women’s sports in educational and athletic institutions.
The Association of Directors of Maine, which is the governing body of the athletics of secondary school in the state, and Grelyly High School were added to the list of Maine institutions that HHS was investigating. The OCR also announced last month that the Maine Education Department was investigating “based on the information that Maine intends to challenge” Trump’s executive order.
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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, speaks at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. (Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
Four days after that ad, the HHS issued a “violation warning.”
Now, the OCR determination letter to the three entities offers them the opportunity to “voluntarily compromise within 10 days to resolve the matter through a signed agreement or risk derivation to the United States Department of Justice for appropriate actions.”
This occurs after OCR investigation discovered that the three entities are obliged to comply with title IX and violated title IX.
HHS expands the investigation of Title IX in Maine to include the state association governing athletics, secondary school in conflict
“The Department of Education of Maine cannot avoid its obligations under federal law by giving control of its activities, programs and extracurricular services to the Association of Directors of Maine,” said Anthony Archeval, interim director of the OCR of the HHS, in a press release. “We hope that the Department of Education of Maine, the Association of Directors of Maine and Grelyly High School to work with us to reach an agreement that restores equity in women’s sports.”
The executive order of Trump 14201, better known as “keeping men outside women’s sports,” was signed to “protect student athletes, in the category of women, to have to” compete with or against or have to see that fail in the established policy established in the establishment of this order “”.
That is exactly what happened in Maine, since the State Education Department received almost $ 1 million of the HHS Solo subgencies, what the Republicans of Maine House said in a press release last week.
The state representative of Maine, Laurel Libby, sounds the alarm for the challenge of the state of the executive order of President Donald Trump that demands the end of the biological men competing in women’s sports. (Getty/Maine representatives house)
Republican legislators in Maine asked Governor Janet Mills, a Democrat, who complies with Trump’s executive order with millions in federal funds for K-12 threatened schools as a result of not doing so.
“If Maine’s Democrats continue to double biological men to participate in girls’ sports, our students can lose hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds. Governor. [Janet] Mills and legislative democrats have a renewed opportunity to do the right thing, to guarantee restored financing and a fair and level playing field for Maine’s girls, “said state representative Laurel Libby, R – Auburn, last Thursday.
Libby became an outstanding figure in this Maine debate after publishing a pole jumper of the Grely high school on social networks. The Pole jumper competed as recently as June 2024 as a biological man, and ended up winning a state championship as a woman.
The Democrats in the Maine State Legislature censored Libby for the post, which showed the athlete competing as a man, while next to an image of the athlete won the female competition of volume of posts in the Interior Championship of the MAINE class B in February in February.
Trump called Maine shortly after Libby’s post began to cause debate. Trump had a public discussion with Governor Mills in the White House, where he threatened with state funds if Maine did not “clean it.” Mills replied that he would see Trump “in court.”
The governor of Maine Janet Mills and President Donald Trump in the White House on Friday. (Getty images)
Mills, in congruence with the Association of Directors of Maine, argues that Trump’s executive order conflicts with the current human rights law of Maine. As a result, after the executive order it would challenge state law, which currently allows athletic participation based on the declared gender identity of the person.
“No president, Republican or Democrat, can retain authorized federal funds and appropriate by Congress and paid by Maine’s taxpayers in an attempt to force someone to fulfill their will,” Mills said in a statement when the HHS initially announced his investigation. “It is a violation of our Constitution and our laws, which I made an oath to defend.”
