Maine is refusing to back down over President Donald Trump’s executive order banning trans athletes from women’s sports.
According to Newsweek, the Department of Education (DOE) has referred Maine to the Department of Justice, after Maine Gov. Janet Mills has been at odds with the president since he took office in January.
Maine was asked to sign the Title IX agreement to ban men from participating in women’s sports in March by the DOE’s Office of Civil Rights.
In response, Maine’s attorney general’s office said in a statement Friday that they will not sign the agreement and that they are now “at an impasse.”
“We will not sign the Resolution Agreement, and we do not have revisions to counter purpose,” the Maine attorney general’s office said. “We agree that we are at an impasse.”
It goes on to say that “[n]othing in Title IX or its implementing regulations prohibits schools from…
