Dept of Education Launches Investigation Into Maine’s Refusal to Ban Men From Women’s Sports

After President Trump’s clash with Maine’s Governor Janet Mills earlier today, the Department of Education is making good on President Trump’s promise.

“I’ll see you in court,” President Trump told Gov. Mills, and the Department of Education is wasting no time.

They have already launched an official civil rights investigation into Maine’s refusal to comply with President Trump’s executive order to keep men out of women’s sports.

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🚨BREAKING: President Trump's Department of Education just launched an INVESTIGATION into Maine's Governor for refusing to keep men out of women's sports. pic.twitter.com/kLVf6T5uxj

— Bo Loudon (@BoLoudon) February 22, 2025

BREAKING: The Department of Education just opened an investigation into Maine following President Trump's back & forth with the governor over her decision to keep men in girls' sports.

THAT WAS FAST! Trump wasn't playing.

"Let me be clear: If Maine wants to continue to receive… pic.twitter.com/ROfiDvOKht

— George (@BehizyTweets) February 21, 2025

From Politico:

The Education Department on Friday launched a probe into Maine’s transgender student sports participation policy after the president threatened the state’s federal funding at a meeting of governors at the White House.

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During the event President Donald Trump touted his executive order that barred transgender students from competing in women’s sports and the effect it has had on the NCAA. Soon after he threatened Maine’s federal funding and singled out Maine Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat, and her state’s policies after she refused to say whether she would comply with his order.

The Trump administration’s response was swift.

Just hours later, the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights launched a self-initiated investigation into the Maine Department of Education for potentially violating Title IX, the federal education law that bars sex-based discrimination. OCR cited “allegations that it continues to allow male athletes to compete in girls’ interscholastic athletics and that it has denied female athletes female-only intimate facilities, thereby violating federal antidiscrimination law.”

“Let me be clear: If Maine wants to continue to receive federal funds from the Education Department, it has to follow Title IX,” said Craig Trainor, acting assistant secretary for civil rights, in a statement. “If it wants to forgo federal funds and continue to trample the rights of its young female athletes, that, too, is its choice.”

The Federalist added:

The U.S. Department of Education launched a civil rights investigation into Maine allowing boys to participate in girls’ sports on Friday, shortly after President Donald Trump slammed Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, over her defiance of federal civil rights protections for girls.

“You better comply, because otherwise you’re not getting any … federal funding,” Trump told Mills at a governors’ summit at the White House on Friday. “By the way, your population, even though it’s somewhat liberal — although I did very well there — your population doesn’t want men playing in women’s sports.”

Mills said she’d see Trump in court, but Trump replied, “Good, I’ll see you in court. I look forward to that. That should be a real easy one. And, enjoy your life after governor, because I don’t think you’ll be in elected politics.”

Immediately following the exchange, the Department of Education sent a letter to Maine Department of Education Commissioner Pender Makin over “allegations that it continues to allow male athletes to compete in girls’ interscholastic athletics and that it has denied female athletes female-only intimate facilities, thereby violating federal antidiscrimination law.”

The investigation includes an inquiry into a Maine school district where a male student who claims to be a female at Greely High School competed against girls and stole first place in the girls’ pole vaulting championship.

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I have a feeling this is not going to end well for Janet…