Trump Doj filed a civil lawsuit against Maine in the deadlock over transgender athletes in women’s sports

The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Maine in an effort to challenge state policies regarding transgender athletes who compete in the sport of girls and girls, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Wednesday.

The lawsuit accused Maine’s policy of violating the title IX and originating from a broader effort by the Trump government to highlight the problems that they considered politically damaging to Democrats.

“The State of Maine, through the Ministry of Education, openly and challenging violates the law of federal anti-discrimination by upholding policies that require girls to compete with boys in exclusively designated athletic competitions for girls,” the lawsuit said. “By prioritizing gender identity rather than biological reality, Maine’s policy to seize female athletes from fair competition, deny the equivalent opportunities of athletics, and describe them to increased risk of physical injury and psychological damage.”

Bondi announced the lawsuit with anti-trans activist Riley Gaines and parents and other students from Maine who had objected to state policies regarding transgender athletes.

“The Department of Justice will not sit when women are discriminated against in sports. This is about sports. This is also about the personal safety of this young woman,” Bondi said in a comment at DOJ. “I met many of these women for the past few weeks and months, and what they had been through was very terrible.”

The lawsuit was probably only the first in a series of legal challenges brought by Trump’s government, after Bondi had previously sent a warning letter in February to State Officials in Maine, California and Minnesota ordered them to “comply with the Federal Anti-Discrimination Law which required them to keep men from women’s sports.”

Democratic Governor Maine Janet Mills has condemned the efforts of Trump’s government to remove federal funds from Maine as executive outrections and reduces the problem of transgender athletes who participated in the sports event of girls and girls.

“Because there are two, maybe two, Trans athletes who compete in the schools now, they decide to turn off funds for school nutritional programs, school lunch programs, fully,” Mills said in a This week’s early interview at CBS WGME affiliates. “The law says if you don’t like what the state is doing here, you can’t just take the funds here.”

In February, meeting with the Governor of the State in the White House, Trump discussed his executive order that prohibited transgender athletes from women’s sports and asked directly, “Are you not going to obey that?”

He replied that he would comply with the state law and federal.

“Well, I – we are a federal law,” Trump said, added, “Well, you better do it. You better do it because you won’t get federal funds at all if you don’t do it.”

Mills replied: “See you in court.”

“Good,” Trump answered. “See you in court. I look forward to that. It should be easy. And enjoy your life after the governor, because I don’t think you will not be in elected politics.”