Whereas Maine Governor Janet Mills defies Trump over his completely constitutional order banning males from ladies’s sports activities, ladies 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 ladies’s sports activities.
The manager order directs the Division of Schooling to implement Title IX primarily based on organic intercourse, threatening to withhold federal funding from academic establishments that enable transgender ladies to compete in ladies’s sports activities. Within the occasion that the Division of Schooling is dismantled, different companies will take over.
On Monday evening, a organic boy calling himself “Katie Spencer” from Greely Excessive College in Cumberland, Maine, simply received first place within the ladies’ state championship meet.
Fox Information reported that he outleaped each feminine by not less than half a foot.
Including insult to harm, Spencer’s pole vault was the primary motive his observe and discipline crew 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 lady in June 2024.
“It’s completely reprehensible that folks able of energy would enable this towards youngsters who’re attempting to compete,” Libby told Fox Information. “There won’t be enforcement from the state stage, that’s completely clear. So the one mechanism of enforcement that we’ve got is for the administration to intervene.”
Libby additionally instructed the outlet {that a} lady competing on the occasion reached out to her following her publish. The lady stated that she and her teammates had no clue they might 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 Schooling introduced in January it might 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 ladies’ and girls’s sports activities.
TGP’s Cassandra MacDonald reported immediately that the Division of Schooling 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.
“In the present day, the U.S. Division of Schooling’s Workplace for Civil Rights (OCR) despatched a letter to the Maine Division of Schooling Commissioner Pender Makin asserting that OCR is initiating a directed investigation of the Maine Division of Schooling (MDOE) amid allegations that it continues to permit male athletes to compete in ladies’ interscholastic athletics and that it has denied feminine athletes female-only intimate services, thereby violating federal antidiscrimination regulation,” the DOE said in a press launch.
“The letter additionally notifies MDOE that OCR is launching an investigation into Maine College Administrative District #51 (MSAD #51), after it was reported that Greely Excessive College, a college underneath its jurisdiction, is continuous to permit not less than one male pupil to compete in ladies’ classes.”
