Maine Governor Janet Mills minimized outcry on transgender-inclusion policies of the state in the sports of girls and women on Monday and said that she was “dismayed” on the prosecution of the Trump administration against his state in the middle of a battle on federal funds.
Mills appeared on MSNBC “Morning Joe” to discuss its battle with several departments of the Trump administration, which began when the State refused to comply with the “No Men in Women’s Sports” executive decree of President Donald Trump who prohibited organic men in the sports of girls and women.
The state did not comply with the order, which launched the problem.
“The chief executive is bound by the Constitution to take care that the laws are faithfully executed, and not to make the laws, and not to invent the laws or reinterpret the laws by tweet or instagram post or press release or decree. He is not authorized to do so.
CLICK HERE for more sports cover on Foxnews.com
Maine Governor Janet Mills and President Donald Trump. (Getty Images)
“So, when he reinterpreted the title IX … I support title IX. I spent the best part of my career protecting the rights of women and girls in health care, employment, housing credit and others and I am dismayed. I was dismissed by his interpretation that he can simply reinvent the law.”
Mills recalled the letters it received from the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture (USDA) and the Ministry of Health and Social Services. She described a letter of April 2 from the USDA secretary, Brooke Rollins, as “rather appalling” and said that some have described it as a “ransom note”.
In the letter, the administration threatened to reduce the financing of Maine due to the continuous allowance of the state of organic men in the sports of girls and women.
“The next day, because there are perhaps at most two transgender athletes who participate in the Maine schools at the moment, they have decided to close the financing of our school nutrition program, the entirely school lunch program on which 172,000 Maine schoolchildren are counting for their school meals. This had no sense,” said Mills.
She added that prosecution against the state was “not rational”.
A federal judge granted Maine a temporary prohibition order and ruled that the financing frost should be lifted.
Governor Janet Mills attended an event on March 11, 2022, in Augusta, in Maine. (AP photo / Robert F. Bukaty, file)
“This temporary prohibition order confirms that the Trump administration has not followed the rule of law when it has reduced the program funds to feed schoolchildren and vulnerable adults,” said Maine Prosecutor General Aaron Frey in a statement. “This ordinance preserves Maine’s access to certain funds appropriate by the congress by prohibiting an illegal frost by the administration.
“No one in our constitutional republic is above the law and we will continue to fight to keep this administration to account.”
The parent of Maine ‘Maga’ silenced the meeting of the School Board during the floor opposing the trans athletes in the sports of girls
The USDA “must immediately thaw and release to the state of Maine any federal funding that they have frozen or failed or refused to pay due to the alleged incapacity for the state of Maine to comply with the requirements of title IX”, reading the district judge John Woodcock.
The administration was also “prohibited to freeze, finish or interfere otherwise with the future federal financing of the state of Maine for alleged violations of title IX without complying with the legally required procedure”.
Maine refused to comply with Trump’s executive decree aimed at banning organic men from the sports of girls and women. Trump initially promised to reduce federal funding to the state if he had to refuse to comply with the order during a speech on February 20.
Maine officials filed a complaint against the USDA last week following the agency’s decision to freeze state financing.
President Donald Trump walks on the southern lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, Sunday April 13, 2025. (AP photo / Jose Luis Magana)
The State accused the USDA of “retaining the funding used to feed children in schools, daycares and programming after school as well as withdrawal adults”, an argument with which the judge accepted. The judge noted that the frost was due to violations of the title IX, but it restricted the ability to “provide[e] Meal for vulnerable children and adults. “”
Meanwhile, the Maine residents made their opinion known when it comes to transgender athletes in sports for girls and women.
A March survey has shown that 64% of Maine residents think that transgender athletes “should certainly not” or “should probably not” participate in the sports of girls and women. Only 29% of Maine residents thought that transgender athletes “should probably” or “should certainly” compete with girls and women in sport.
The survey has also shown that 56% of Maine Democrats think that transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in the sports of girls and women.
Regarding the promulgation of policies to fight against the question of the participation of transgender in sports, the survey showed that 50% of the residents of Maine wanted it at the federal level, while 41% think that politics should be left in the United States.
Maine is also one of the states that have been warned to house prisoners by organic sex or to face a financing cut.
