Maine Referred to DOJ for Allowing Transgender Athletes in Girls’ Sports

‘We agree that we are at an impasse,’ said the state’s attorney general in a letter to the Trump administration. Federal education dollars are at stake.

The Department of Education in Washington on July 16, 2019. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

The Department of Education has referred Maine to the Department of Justice after the state refused to end the participation of boys identifying as transgender in girls’ sports, federal officials announced April 11, the deadline to comply.

Craig Trainor, the Department of Education’s acting assistant secretary for its Office for Civil Rights, said in a statement emailed to The Epoch Times that Maine ignored two warning letters. The investigation into the state’s potential Title IX law violations is now being handled by the Department of Justice.