Maine state lawmakers call the state's policies regarding transgender participation in girls and women's sports “extreme,” warning that federal funding could cost millions did.
R-Auburn State Assemblyman Laurel Libby appeared on Outkick's “Ricky Cobb Show” And then I responded to the nausea between President Donald Trump and Maine Gov. Janet Mills last week. Two batted heads against the state's transgender participation policy in girls and women's sports after the president signed an executive order to ban these types of rules.
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Maine's transgender athlete policy has occurred. (Fox News)
The rules of the Main Principal Association stated that future student-athletes must “declare gender identity to member schools if their gender identity is different from the gender of the student assigned at the time of the student's birth.” The rules stated that schools have “the sole authority to determine gender identity assignments intended to register athletic ability and participate in events sponsored by the MPA.”
Furthermore, “We do not require medical records or official documents necessary to establish a student's gender identity.”
“That's the policy Gov. Mills is defending President Trump,” Libby said. “It's very extreme. It's an outlier among other states that have similar policies, and that's an extreme position that Mainers doesn't support.
“Not only does she support this extreme policy, but her stance could cost Maine schools $250 million, which would provide education to Maine children. It's the money needed to do that. She seems to be digging quite deep, and President Trump has to take this all the way through the courthouse.”
President Donald Trump and Maine Gov. Janet Mills competed for executive order compliance at the White House on Friday. (Pool via AP/Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Maine's governor “want to protect women and women's sports,” says Sen Marsha Blackburn.
Libby called the policy “incredibly broad,” pointing to issues the state has seen recently, with trans athletes winning the state's title. Girl's pole vault.
The “No Men in Women's Sports” executive order was signed earlier this month. Trump vowed to withhold federal funds from Maine schools if they violated his federal orders.
The Department of Education has launched a Title IX investigation for Maine.
In a statement Friday, Mills said she will stand up to the “rule of law.”
“A Republican or Democrat cannot withhold federal funds approved and approved by Congress and paid by Maine taxpayers. A pledge to support them,” she said.
“Maine may be one of the first states to be investigated by his administration, but we are not the last. Today, the US president has a specific group on the specific issues addressed by Maine law. You are targeting who are you targeting next? In America, the president is not even the king, a dictator is about as much as this is trying to act like that. And he is It is the rule of law that prevents you from doing so.”
Split with transgender flag and track finish line. (Getty Images)
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Mills imagines the findings are “predetermined” and not considering what is happening in the arena, but rather the rule of law that the president controls us. He added that it is about whether he can adhere to his will. I believe he can't. ”
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