Whereas Maine Governor Janet Mills defies Trump over his completely constitutional order banning males from girls’s sports activities, women proceed to have their glory stripped away from them within the Pine Tree State.
As Jim Hoft reported earlier this month, Trump signed a landmark govt order that ensured organic males couldn’t compete in girls’s sports activities.
The manager order directs the Division of Training to implement Title IX primarily based on organic intercourse, threatening to withhold federal funding from instructional establishments that permit transgender girls to compete in girls’s sports activities. Within the occasion that the Division of Training is dismantled, different companies will take over.
On Monday night time, a organic boy calling himself “Katie Spencer” from Greely Excessive Faculty in Cumberland, Maine, simply received first place within the women’ state championship meet.
Fox Information reported that he outleaped each feminine by not less than half a foot.
Including insult to damage, Spencer’s pole vault was the primary motive his monitor and area staff received the Class B state championship meet by ONE POINT.
Maine GOP State Rep. Laurel Libby additionally revealed one other outrageous truth on Fb: “Katie Spencer” had competed as John Rydzewski within the boy’s pole vault only one yr in the past and received fifth place. He then began competing as a woman in June 2024.
“It’s completely reprehensible that individuals able of energy would permit this towards kids who’re attempting to compete,” Libby told Fox Information. “There is not going to be enforcement from the state degree, that’s completely clear. So the one mechanism of enforcement that we’ve got is for the administration to intervene.”
Libby additionally advised the outlet {that a} woman competing on the occasion reached out to her following her submit. The woman mentioned that she and her teammates had no clue they’d be competing towards a male till they arrived, a truth Libby referred to as “disheartening.”
The Each day Wire revealed that Maine’s Division of Training introduced in January it could not adjust to Trump’s order on gender. Furthermore, the Maine Principals’ Affiliation (MPA) said earlier this month that the Pine Tree State would proceed to permit males to compete in women’ and girls’s sports activities.
TGP’s Cassandra MacDonald reported right now that the Division of Training has now launched an investigation into Maine’s compliance with Title IX legal guidelines.
The announcement got here hours after Trump publicly humiliated Mills at a gathering of the Nationwide Governors Affiliation (NGA) on Friday.
“As we speak, the U.S. Division of Training’s Workplace for Civil Rights (OCR) despatched a letter to the Maine Division of Training Commissioner Pender Makin saying that OCR is initiating a directed investigation of the Maine Division of Training (MDOE) amid allegations that it continues to permit male athletes to compete in women’ interscholastic athletics and that it has denied feminine athletes female-only intimate services, thereby violating federal antidiscrimination legislation,” the DOE said in a press launch.
“The letter additionally notifies MDOE that OCR is launching an investigation into Maine Faculty Administrative District #51 (MSAD #51), after it was reported that Greely Excessive Faculty, a college beneath its jurisdiction, is continuous to permit not less than one male scholar to compete in women’ classes.”
