The American Ministry of Education Civil Rights Office has launched investigations into Maine following Trump tight spit with the state governor.
The administration launched an investigation into title IX on the Maine Ministry of Education to find out if it allows transgender students to participate in female athletics and to use the female changing rooms. The Department will also investigate the administrative district of the Maine school # 51, in Cumberland, on information according to which a transgender student is in competition in the categories of girls.
Craig Trainor, the head of actor of the Department’s Civil Rights Office, stressed in a statement that the federal education funding of Maine is threatened if the state continues to “trample the rights of its young female athletes”. The agency, he said, “will do everything in its power to ensure that taxpayers do not finance the blatant offenders of civil rights.”
The department announced the probe hours After Trump faced With the governor of Maine Janet Mills, a democrat, at a meeting of the White House. Trump called Mills during the remarks and asked if his condition would follow his decree which prohibits transgender athletes from participating in competitions with a single sex or teams that do not correspond to their sexual relations at birth.
When Mills said that his condition followed the law of the state and the federative, Trump replied: “You would better comply. Otherwise, you do not get any federal funding.”
Since January, the Education department has opened several surveys under the IX gender equality law in colleges, school districts and state athletics organizations concerning their rules concerning transgender athletes.
These surveys are generally resolved by the ministry which orders certain policy changes if it notes that the school does not respect the federal rules of civil rights. If they do not reach an agreement, the ministry can refer the case to the United States Ministry of Justice to initiate procedures to reduce the federal funding of the school, which has not arrived since The George HW Bush administration.
Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, published a declaration Today, postponing Trump’s threat to reduce the financing of state schools.
“I oppose the president’s attempt to reduce the financing of Maine and I will vigorously plead for our fair share of federal funding for the Maine schools,” she said.