‘We are the federal law,’ Trump tells Maine governor
Maine is now under federal investigation and could lose taxpayer funding if it continues to allow men into women’s sports, in violation of the law.
The Maine Department of Education faces “allegations that it continues to allow male athletes to compete in girls’ interscholastic athletics and that it has denied female athletes female-only intimate facilities,” according to an announcement from the U.S. Dept. of Ed on Friday.
Federal officials also opened a related investigation into Greely High School, which recently allowed a male pole vaulter named John Rydzewski to dominate a state track meet last week.
The male student, who now calls himself a girl by the name “Katie Spencer,” helped Greely HS win the indoor track championship, as The College Fix previously reported.
President Donald Trump warned Maine Governor Janet Mills in-person during a meeting on Thursday, the day before, that her state would lose federal funding if it continued to violate Title IX. The federal law requires schools to keep sex-segregated sports teams as well as facilities, such as locker rooms, according to a legal directive from the Trump administration.
Mills, along with the Maine Principals’ Association, has vowed to defy federal law, according to WMTW, a local news station.
Trump noted the NCAA quickly complied with his directive and told Gov. Mills during a Feb. 20 meeting of governors that her state should comply.
“I’m complying with state and federal laws,” Mills said, as reported by Catholic Vote.
“We are the federal law,” the president told Mills in front of other governors. “You better do it, because you’re not going to get any federal funding if you don’t.”
The federal department of education said Maine should not “trample the rights” of “female athletes.”
“Maine would have you believe that it has no choice in how it treats women and girls in athletics—that is, that it must follow its state laws and allow male athletes to compete against women and girls,” Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor stated in a news release. “Let me be clear: If Maine wants to continue to receive federal funds from the Education Department, it has to follow Title IX. If it wants to forgo federal funds and continue to trample the rights of its young female athletes, that, too, is its choice.”
“OCR will do everything in its power to ensure taxpayers are not funding blatant civil rights violators,” Trainor stated.
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