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The state of Maine and President Donald Trump reached an agreement in their dispute on transgender athletes in girls’ sports.
In exchange for the United States Department of Agriculture, it agrees to restore federal funds to Maine that had frozen, the State withdrew its demand against the Trump administration.
The demand was filed on April 7 after a freezing of federal funds in response to the state’s refusal to keep trans athletes out of girls’ sports.
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Federal judge John Woodcock ordered the Trump administration to restore those funds on April 12. Woodcock, a main judge of the United States District Court for the Maine district, was appointed by former President George W. Bush in 2003.
The office of Maine’s attorney general, Aaron Frey, issued a statement addressed to the agreement on Friday afternoon.
“It is unfortunate that my office has had to resort to the Federal Court only for the USDA to comply with the law and its own regulations,” Frey said. “But we are pleased that demand has been resolved and that Maine continues to receive funds as indicated by Congress to feed vulnerable children and adults.”
However, the State still faces other legal battles related to the problem.
Maine’s girl involved in the battle of Trans athletes reveals how state policies hurt her children’s and sports career
The United States Department of Justice announced a lawsuit against the State of Maine for its continuous challenge to Trump’s executive order to keep biological men out of the sports of girls and women and alleged violations of Title IX. Attorney general Pam Bondi He announced the lawsuit at a press conference on April 16.
“The Department of Justice will not sit when women are discriminated against in sports,” Bondi said at the press conference. “What they have happened is horrible.”
Bondi said he was looking for a court order and that the titles returned to the girls that “legitimately” won competitions in which trans athletes participated.
The Department of Justice accused the State of “the Federal Law against Federal Discrimination by enforcing the policies that require girls to compete against boys in athletic competitions designated exclusively for girls,” according to a complaint obtained by Pak Gazette.
“By prioritizing gender identity over biological reality, Maine’s policies deprive athletes of fair competition, deny the same athletic opportunities and expose them to the greatest risks of physical injuries and psychological damage.”
Frey previously claimed that the “Child Nutrition Program of the Department of Education of Maine could not access several federal financing sources, all of which are necessary to feed vulnerable children and adults” after Rollins had indicated that the freezing of funds would not affect the programs that keep the children fed.
Meanwhile, the representative of Maine Sate, Laurel Libby, seeks to bring his lawsuit against Maine House president Ryan Fecteau, before the United States Supreme Court. Libby sued Fecteau after she was censored by the democratic majority of the state legislature in February for a viral Facebook publication that identified a Trans athlete who won a girl’s competition.
But the judge of the District Court of Rhode Island, Melissa Dubose against Libby In your case on April 22. Dubose, appointed by former President Joe Biden in January, presided over the case after each district judge in Maine refused to take it.
Then, the First Court of Appeals of the Circuit also failed against Libby.
Then, now he is looking for an intervention by the United States Supreme Court and hopes to hear if the court will hear the case on April 12.
The State is also involved in its own internal conflict with residents.
TO School district In Maine he is moving to comply with Trump instead of the state on the subject. The MSAD School Board No. 70 unanimously voted on Monday night to comply with title IX, and Superintendent Tyler Putnam told Pak Gazette Digital that it will amend the district policies to prevent Trans athletes from competing in girls sports.
Maine’s father, Nick Blanchard, recently caught national attention after he was interrupted in a meeting of the School Board in the capital city of Maine, Augusta, while discussing the controversial issue and a petition he launched for a school administrator to withdraw from his position to support the transgender inclusion.
Maine High School athlete, Cassidy Carlisle, spoke in a demonstration in Augusta by opposing Governor Janet Mills on the subject and made a trip to the White House to discuss the issue in her state on February 27. Carlisle was driven to take measures on the subject after losing a trans athlete in the country and Nordic ski skills. He also says he had to share a costume with a trans athlete six years during a class of secondary gymnastics.
