Maine filed a lawsuit against Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins on Monday against the USDA and Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins for revoking funds after the state refused the Trump administration’s direction to ban women’s competition in sports.
Litigation It alleges that revoking USDA funding is “blatantly illegal” and violates the Management Procedures Act to “freeze federal funds allocated to Maine to feed school children.” After Democratic Maine Governor Janet Mills became a public spew with President Donald Trump, funds from the USDA were cut on April 2, during which the governor refused to comply with Trump Prohibited For women’s sports men.
“The secretary allegedly made this action because Maine is violating Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by allowing transgender girls and women to participate in school sports for girls and women,” the lawsuit states. “The secretary did not provide a legal basis for interpretation of Title IX. Her interpretation is incorrect. In fact, some federal courts have determined that Title IX and Equality Protection Clause require that schools allow transgender girls and women to play on girls and women’s teams.”
USDA It is listed Fundraising Freeze applies only to “specific management and technical features of the school” and “does not affect federal feeding programs or direct support.”
“This is just the beginning, but we cannot be free to end anytime by protecting women and girls in accordance with federal law,” reads the USDA’s letter to Mills.
Mills’s office and the Maine Attorney General’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Carener News Foundation.
Gov. Janet Mills (D-ME) took her seat after Trump challenged US President Donald Trump on federal law on the issue of trans women in sports as he attended a governor’s meeting at the White House on February 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
USDA has opened investigation He will join the Maine Education Department on February 22, the day after the fiery exchange between Trump and Mills, to review his compliance with Title IX, which protects women from discrimination. On March 19, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) discovered that the state’s Department of Education “has policies and practices that violate Title IX.” April 2nd, USDA announcement Frozen federal funds “for certain Maine education programs.”
“Results [the Office of Civil Rights’] Investigation of [the Maine Department of Education] Craig’s trainer, the department’s deputy civil rights secretary, has confirmed that the boys are violating federal anti-discrimination laws by allowing girls’ sports and boys to occupy girls’ intimate facilities to occupy girls’ intimate facilities. statement at that time. “Today’s findings and proposed resolution agreements demonstrate to other entities receiving federal funds that the MDOE and its Trump administration do not tolerate illegal discrimination against girls and women. If Maine does not quickly and fully comply with Title IX, it will begin a process of restricting MDOE’s access to federal funds.”
The department has sent a letter to the states threatening it with “immediate enforcement action” if they do not agree to the resolution plan within 10 days.
USDA also temporarily suspended funds on the entire University of Maine System (UMS) on March 10th. announcement The system was compliant with federal law on March 19th.
Trump signed an executive order on February 5th banning men from competing in women’s sports, and subsequently requested a women’s record of NCAA recovery taken by male competitors. Several female athletes were injured after being forced to compete with men, including 19-year-old Payton McNabb, who suffered traumatic brain damage after claiming that a male athlete claiming to be a transgender woman spiked a volleyball into her head.
During his presidency, former President Joe Biden attempted to rewrite Title IX, which aimed to protect women from discrimination, in order to include the protection of transgender individuals who faced many legal challenges, which were widely criticised by Republican-led states. The rules were challenged and eventually removed.
Under Biden’s control, USDA tried It will be turned into a weapon The move met several legal challenges, but state lunch funds tried to force the state.
The Maine Department of Education and the USDA did not immediately respond to DCNF’s request for comment.
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