Managers of a school district of Maine announced Thursday that the district will not comply with an agreement proposed with the administration of President Donald Trump which would prevent transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports.
Maine Administrative School District 51, which houses Greely High School, where a transgender athlete prompted national controversy after winning a women’s leaping competition in February, said that he does not comply and that he will continue to follow the law of the state and the law on human rights of Maine “.
“To our students: Thank you for your maturity, your perseverance and your dedication to learning by these distractions. Please continue to open the way,” the district said in a statement.
The association of managers of Maine declared in a press release that it was also “linked by law, including the Maine Human Rights Act, that our participation policy reflects”.
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The institutions have chosen to challenge Trump despite recent data suggesting that the majority of Maine residents oppose transgender athletes in girls sports.
An investigation by the American Parents Coalition revealed that out of around 600 registered voters from Maine, 63% said that the participation of school sports should be based on organic sex, and 66% agreed that it was “just to restrict the sports of women to organic women”.
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The survey also revealed that 60% of residents would support a voting measure limiting participation In Sports for women and girls at Biological women. This included 64% of the self -employed and 66% of parents with children under the age of 18.
The situation involving a trans athlete at the Greely high school drew national attention after the Republican state representative of Maine, Laurel Libby, identified the athlete by name with a photograph in a social media position in February.
Police protection was then allocated to school for security problems.
The Maine’s legislature then censored Libby for the post, and has since filed a legal action aimed at reducing censorship.
A quarrel between Trump and Maine Governor Janet Mills began on February 20 at a GOP Governors’ GOP meeting, when Trump threatened to reduce federal funding to the state so as not to ban the transminal girls and sports athletes.
The next day, the Mills’ office responded with a statement threatening legal action against the Trump administration if it retains federal state funding. Then Trump and Mills verbally overwhelmed in a largely publicized argument in the White House during a bipartite meeting of governors.
“Aren’t you respected that?” Trump Mills asked.
Since then, multiple demonstrations against Mills have taken place outside the State Capitol, and the Maine’s university system has cooperated with the Trump administration to ensure that no trans transmian athlete in female sports after a temporary funding break.
Last week, the United States Civil Rights Office (OCR) announced that it had found the Maine Ministry of Education, the Association of Maine Directors and the Greely High School in violation of title IX for continuing to allow transcusion in girls sports.
The announcement warned that the State had 10 days to correct its policies through a signed agreement or reference risk to the United States Ministry of Justice for an appropriate action. This deadline has passed Thursday.
The acting director of the OCR, Anthony Archeval, previously provided a declaration In PK Press Club Digital Warning of the potential consequences for the continuous challenge of the decree.
“What HHS is asking for the Maine Ministry of Education, the Association of Maine Directors (MPA) and Greely High School is simple – protecting the rights of female athletes. Girls deserve sports reserved for girls without male competitors. And if Maine will not arrive at the table to comply voluntarily by law,” said Archeval.
