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A Maine Republican says that her state’s transgender athlete policy is so “extreme” that it will cost the state millions in federal funding. Maine Republican state Rep. Laurel Libby is blasting Democrat Governor Janet Mills for refusing to obey President Donald Trump’s Title IX rules banning transgender athletes in girl’s sports or risk a loss of federal education funding. Maine’s Principals’ Association maintains that its state rules take precedence over the new rules written by Donald Trump’s administration, and the state’s schools will continue to allow transgender athletes to compete in girl’s and women’s sports, Fox News reported.

This morning, Donald Trump presided over a meeting of governors, one of whom was Maine’s Janet Mills. When she effectively announced that she was refusing to comply with his mandate regarding men in women’s sports, Trump told her the harsh truth: He holds the checkbook. It was an epic confrontation and also a Rorschach test because leftists are celebrating Mills’s stance, while conservatives (and probably most Americans) are supporting Trump. Up until this morning, Gov. Mills was a complete nonentity to most Americans. Outside of Maine, nobody had heard of her—and she probably wouldn’t have won in the first place...

FEBRUARY 21, 2025 WASHINGTON – Today the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) sent a letter to the Maine Department of Education Commissioner Pender Makin announcing that OCR is initiating a directed investigation of the Maine Department of Education (MDOE) amid 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 letter also notifies MDOE that OCR is launching an investigation into Maine School Administrative District #51 (MSAD #51), after it was reported that Greely High School,...

TRENTON, NJ – New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and his minions are messing around with President Donald J. Trump, and soon, they could be finding out in the form of cuts to federal funding for education. Despite a recent executive order from President Trump aimed at barring transgender athletes from participating in school sports aligned with their gender identity, the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) has announced it will not alter its existing transgender athlete policy. The decision marks a significant act of defiance against the federal directive, setting the stage for a potential clash between state and...

There are several states that are allowing males to compete in women’s sports. This is in direct violation of Federal Title IX regulations prohibiting sex-based discrimination. The people of these states voted for and got the government they deserve. They voted to let transvestites and other perverts compete against girls and invade their locker rooms. The more they do this the more dollars we save every year by denying them federal money. President Trump should take this money and use it to pay down the national debt. And make a big show about it.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) may be only pretending to comply with an Executive Order keeping men out of women’s sports that was signed by President Trump on Feb 5. Jennifer Sey, who is a former U.S. gymnastics champion, says the NCAA’s new policy claims to comply with Trump’s order, yet leaves itself two loopholes through which men who identify as women may continue to participate as student athletes in women’s sports. ... he NCAA newly announced policy to "keep women's sports female" -- and (supposedly) uphold the Executive Order -- is no policy at all. There are holes...

The U.S. Department of Education is calling on the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) to revoke the titles and championships awarded to transgender athletes competing in girls’ and women’s sports during the Biden administration.

Cali's gonna Cali, am I right? In a move that absolutely everyone could have seen coming, Commiefornia is taking their stand against Orange Man Bad by forcing girls to share locker rooms with dudes. The State of California and its public school athletics association has indicated it will not fall in line with President Donald Trump's latest executive order to keep trans athletes out of girls' and women's sports. The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) said it will continue to follow the state's law that allows athletes to participate as whichever gender they identify as, according to The San Francisco Chronicle.

(Brooklyn Center, MN) -- The Minnesota State High School League will still allow student-athletes to participate in sports consistent with their gender identity. A memo sent to schools said, "The Minnesota State High School League, similar to other youth sports organizations, is subject to state anti-discrimination laws, which prohibit discrimination based on gender identity." The letter comes in the wake of President Trump signing an executive order to ban transgender athletes from playing girl's and women's sports. The M-S-H-S-L said it will continue to review how state laws interplay with the executive order.

nother HUGE win! The NCAA on Thursday banned transgender athletes (biological men) from participating in women’s sports just one day after Trump signed an Executive Order to protect girls’ sports. Fox News reported: The NCAA has officially changed its gender eligibility policies to ban all biological males from women’s sports one day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to address the issue. The governing body of college sports announced on Thursday afternoon its new participation policy for transgender student-athletes. “A student-athlete assigned male at birth may not compete on a women’s team,” the new policy reads. The new...

The NCAA changed its participation policy for transgender athletes on Thursday, limiting competition in women's sports to athletes assigned female at birth only. The move came one day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls' and women's sports. The order gives federal agencies latitude to withhold federal funding from entities that do not abide by Title IX in alignment with the Trump administration's view, which interprets "sex" as the gender someone was assigned at birth.

Several women who were former college athletes filed a lawsuit Tuesday after being forced to compete against a man and share changing rooms and bathrooms with him in 2022. Grace Estabrook, Ellen Holmquist and Margot Kaczorowski all competed on the University of Pennsylvania’s (UPenn) swim team when transgender-identifying male athlete Lia Thomas was allowed to join the team and use the women’s facilities. The women are suing UPenn as well as Harvard University, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Ivy League Council of Presidents for allegedly violating Title IX by discriminating against women and causing them “emotional harm,”...

On Wednesday, which happens to be National Girls & Women in Sports Day, President Trump signed the “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order, which is designed to “protect opportunities for women and girls to compete in safe and fair sports.”The executive order establishes that it is the policy of the United States to “rescind all funds from educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities, which results in the endangerment, humiliation, and silencing of women and girls and deprives them of privacy,” and to “oppose male competitive participation in women’s sports more broadly, as a...

President Donald Trump said Wednesday the U.S. will not grant visas to transgender women athletes trying to enter the country to participate in the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. Trump made the declaration at the White House during a signing ceremony of an executive order aimed at prohibiting transgender women and girls from competing in women's sports and directing agencies to withdraw federal funding for any schools that refuse to comply. Trump said he will direct Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem "to deny any and all visa applications made by men attempting to fraudulently enter the United States while identifying...

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order to keep biological men out of women’s sports, OutKick confirmed on Tuesday. The executive order will come on National Girls and Women in Sports Day on Wednesday, which celebrates female athletes across women’s sports and those who are committed to providing equal access to sports for all females. Trump made fairness in women’s sports a major campaign issue on his way to winning the presidential election over former Vice President Kamala Harris in November. At the beginning of January, a federal judge blocked the Biden administration’s attempt to redefine sex...

It could soon be illegal for transgender girls to compete in girls’ sports at all levels from kindergarten to public colleges. Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns introduced his bill on Tuesday afternoon. Some Democrats are not only condemning the bill but are saying girls’ sports are inherently unfair in Georgia anyway. Burns’ bill comes even though there are no reported incidents of transgender girls trying to compete in sports anywhere in Georgia. The bill’s author, Fayetteville Republican Josh Bonner insisted that’s not the point. “How many incidents? What is our threshold? Do we want any young girl in the state...

A tough stretch for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., got worse Tuesday when she watched members of her party vote for a bill she attacked at the expense of widespread mockery. Ocasio-Cortez's viral rant against the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act wasn't enough to convince Democratic allies Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez, both of Texas, to vote against the bill. Cuellar and Gonzalez joined 218 House Republicans who voted for the bill that seeks to prevent federally funded educational institutions from allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls and women's sports. For Ocasio-Cortez, the notion of Democratic congressmen...

The judge found the rule change went beyond Title IX, which is aimed at preventing discrimination on the basis of sex.A federal judge on Jan. 9 scrapped the Education Department’s attempt to expand Title IX protections to people who identify as transgender, finding that the 2024 rule is illegal.Title IX forbids discrimination on the basis of sex. It applies to schools that receive federal funding.The Department of Education (DOE), in its rule, made it illegal to discriminate on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation.States sued, and a judge blocked the rule while the legal case proceeded. That judge,...

The new Republican-controlled 119th House of Representatives, convened Friday, has already fast tracked a bill that would ban men in women’s sports. The bill was moved forward as part of the 119th rules package, which allowed 12 bills “on a glide path to a vote on the House floor without allowing for hearings or amendments, by limiting debate, and waiving all the other chamber rules,” GovTrack reported. The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act was reintroduced Friday by U.S. Rep. Greg Steube, a Florida Republican, along with 56 Republican cosponsors. “This legislation allows women and girls a fair...

Piecemeal decisions at lower courts have created a shifting legal landscape across the nation, advocates say A federal court’s decision last week to allow a biological male at San Jose State University to compete in a women’s collegiate volleyball tournament added yet another layer to the growing patchwork of legal rulings surrounding transgender athletes. That case is still working its way through lower courts, but the decision has led opponents to renew their pleas for a Supreme Court ruling on the issue.