© Pool via AP/Win McNamee/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump and Maine Gov. Janet Mills clashed at the White House last month over executive order compliance.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on Friday said it referred Maine's "noncompliance" with Title IX rules to the Justice Department for enforcement.
Maine has continued to defy President Donald Trump's executive order to ban trans athletes from women's and girls' sports. The HHS gave the state 10 days to correct its policies through a signed agreement or risk referral to the Justice Department.
"Today, OCR referred Maine's noncompliance with Title IX to @TheJusticeDept for enforcement in court for continuing to unlawfully allow males to compete against females," the department announced in a post on X.
"HHS will continue to protect women's sports and keep the promises of Title IX for America's women and girls."
Fox News Digital reached out to Maine Gov. Janet Mills' office and Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey's office for comment.
The Maine School Administrative District 51, home to Greely High School, where a transgender athlete incited national controversy after winning a girls' pole vault competition in February, said Thursday it was not complying and will instead "continue to follow state law and the Maine Human Rights Act."
The Maine Principals' Association said in a statement it is also "bound by the law, including the Maine Human Rights Act, which our participation policy reflects."
The situation involving the trans athlete at Greely High School attracted national attention after Maine Republican state Rep. Laurel Libby identified the athlete by name with a photograph in a social media post. Libby was later censured by the Maine legislature, and she has since filed a lawsuit to have it overturned.
Trump signed the "No Men in Women's Sports" executive order in early February, which led to multiple athletics associations complying with it and a handful thumbing their nose at the order. The issue with the state of Maine came to a head at a meeting of the National Governors Association.
Trump threatened to cut federal funding to the state for not banning biological males from girls' and women's sports.
The next day, Mills' office responded with a statement threatening legal action against the Trump administration if it did withhold federal funding from the state. Then, Trump and Mills verbally sparred in a widely publicized argument at the White House during a bipartisan meeting of governors.
"Are you not going to comply with that?" Trump asked Mills.
Comment: Listen to this silly cow arguing with Trump at an official function:
Apparently Mills is an amateur theater buff. Here she is performing in a drag show:
Since then, multiple protests against Mills have been held outside the state Capitol, and the Maine University System has cooperated with the Trump administration to ensure no trans athletes compete in women's sports after a temporary funding pause.
The OCR announced last week it found the Maine Department of Education, the Maine Principals' Association and Greely High School in violation of Title IX for continuing to enable trans inclusion in girls' sports.
OCR Acting Director Anthony Archeval previously provided a statement to Fox News Digital warning of potential consequences for continued defiance of the executive order.
"What HHS is asking of the Maine Department of Education, the Maine Principals' Association (MPA) and Greely High School is simple — protect female athletes' rights. Girls deserve girls-only sports without male competitors. And if Maine won't come to the table to voluntarily comply with Title IX, HHS will enforce Title IX to the fullest extent permitted by the law," Archeval said.
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I still think pride is kin to selfishness, and there is no genuine way to use that word in a positive context. Pride is a vice. One of the seven deadly sins, in fact. Many consider it to be the worst of all.
I think people confuse it with the word "dignity" or "honor." I think pride is a perversion of those sentiments at best, but is usually just some ass being full of himself.
I find nothing virtuous about pride, but I'm not at all surprised that this modern degenerate society holds pride in such high regard. It's cliché satanism...even if you don't believe in that stuff. They do, and pride is officially their chief principal. They have a web-page. You can look it up. They are very upfront about that, as they necessarily have no shame.
While it's been a strong view of the Catholic Church for a very long time (that pride is no virtue), the rest of them preach this too. They even have funny lessons about leavened bread to illustrate being puffed-up and empty, which is probably more of a Jewish thing, really...because Christians aren't the only ones who regard pride as a sin, and they are a spin-off from and even older religion.
Ned, you act like this is the first time you've ever heard of such an idea.
Now, all of this could be considered 'freedom of speech' and a chance for mis-shapen people to display their piercings and awkwardness, if that's all they did. But no, they regularly, verbally accost straight white males and females who happen to walk by their gathering, which is harming local business. Yet their biggest thrill, and my biggest problem with them is their open animosity and abuse of anyone who doesn't believe what they believe, especially Christians.
Two blocks either way of Pride Corner are where different Christian denominations set up to preach and hand out pamphlets. I have witnessed on multiple occasions the 'pride' group walk over and begin to verbally and even physically harass the Christians with expressions like 'fuck your jesus' and 'we shite on your god', etc. etc.
Now, it's fine for people to disagree with the beliefs of others, but to go out of your way to abuse others who don't happen to share beliefs (or wardrobes) is criminal at the very least, with the 'pride' behaviour often appearing 'satanic'.
If I were to approach 'pride corner' and conduct myself towards them, as they act towards others, I would be arrested. They, however, are free to assault and harass all they want. So this is one reason (of many) why I fuking hate these 'pride' folk and wish Edmonton had more institutions into which they could be thrown.
It's strange to me to see liberals being the ones violently ramming their beliefs down everybody's throats, and even stranger is them parroting government talking points. It's very upside down, and I think it has been groomed to be this obscene on purpose.
As for pride, Christians aren't the only ones who view pride as a sin. Satanists do too, but their take on it is, of course, up-side down. And since Satanism is a much bigger thing these days, it doesn't surprise me at all to see them putting their weight behind the gay agenda, and they do present colors there.
I would not be surprised if the queer-pride brand wasn't actually coined by members of that
churchgrotto. They are a very politically activechurchgrotto these days, and it is certainly in line with their "values"...they don't officially recognize "virtues" as being a thing either, so they prefer the word "values."'Pride's' acceptance does indeed come from those who would burn those books and similarly reject their teachings. I am fully aware of Zion's on-going attempts to pervert our world and I acknowledge their efforts and beliefs as 'satanic'.
From Milton's Paradise Lost, what did Satan say. In more poetic terms, "To these(fallen angels) Satan directs his Speech, comforts them with hope yet of regaining Heaven, but tells them lastly of a new World and new kind of Creature to be created , according to an ancient Prophesie or report in Heaven; for that Angels(fallen angels) were long before this visible Creation." This is one belief of the bloodlines.
Satan's fall was due to Pride. Pride, before the fall.