The Maine’s education office is sentenced to ban Transgender athletes girls ”and Female sports or face federal proceedings, an escalation of the American president Donald Trump Threats to draw federal money from states and schools rather than transgender athletes.
The American education department said on Wednesday an investigation ended Maine The Education Bureau has violated the Law on Anti -Discription of Title IX by allowing transgender girls to compete in girls sports teams and use female facilities. This gives Maine for 10 days to comply with a list of requests or to face prosecution from the Ministry of Justice.
“If Maine does not enter quickly and completely in accordance with title IX, we will initiate the process to limit MDOE’s access to federal funding,” Craig Trainor, Assistant Assistant Secretary for civil rights, in a statement.
The federal investigation into the Maine Ministry of Education was opened on February 21, just a few hours after Trump and the State Democratic Governor Janet Mills clashed on the issue at a meeting of the White House governors. During the stormy exchange, Mills told the Republican president: “We will see you in court.”
Messages at the Mills’ office and the State Education Department were not immediately answered.
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This is an amazing turnaround for a survey on civil rights in the education department, which often takes months or years to resolve business. The Trump administration pushed stronger and faster to punish alleged offenders, in some cases, attracting accusations that it bypassing the regular procedures required by law.
The proposed resolution would require Maine’s schools to prohibit transgender girls from participating in any sports program or to use changes or bathrooms designated for girls. This would also force the State to accept the definition of the sex of the Trump administration as a man or feminine only.
The state would be required to revoke prices and individual honors won by transgender girls and give them to athletes who would have won. The State should apologize to these athletes “for having enabled its educational experience and its participation in school sports to be spoiled by sexual discrimination,” said the education department.
A separate announcement of the American Department of Agriculture said that the University of Maine’s system seems to comply with Trump’s orders on transgender athletes and will continue to receive money from the agency. The USDA said it started investigating the problem last month, but the system replied by saying that it did not allow transgender athletes in female sports.
The system is “relieved to put the compliance review to title IX of the department behind us,” said Chancellor Dannel Malloy in a press release.
Trump campaigned on a promise to withdraw transgender athletes from girls sports and made it an absolute priority.
The Department of Education has launched surveys on the question at the University of Pennsylvania and at the State University of San Jose, as well as a sports league of secondary school in Massachusetts. On Wednesday, the White House said that it has suspended about $ 175 million in federal funding for Penn for the participation of a Transgender athlete in its swimming program.
Trump officials accelerate the surveys as they release approximately half of the employees of the Civil Rights Office of the Department of Education, which investigates complaints and works to put schools in compliance. The cuts have fully dismissed the staff of seven regional offices, including one in Boston, who historically treated cases in Maine and New England.
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