In the face of a new executive order issued by President Donald Trump on Wednesday imposing significant penalties on schools that allow males to compete in girls’ sports, the Maine Department of Education (DOE) maintained its commitment to radical gender ideology.
[RELATED: Maine Education Department Tells Public Schools to Ignore Trump’s Order on Transgender Ideology…]
“The Executive Order ‘Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government’ applies to the Federal government/Federal government agencies only and does not inhibit the force of Maine law or locally-adopted school board policies,” said the DOE in a priority notice on January 21, even before the latest White House executive order was issued.
While the state’s education department is currently holding firm in its commitment to the gender ideology that says a boy can identify as the opposite gender and compete against girls, and share their locker rooms and bathrooms, it may soon be forced to capitulate in the face of federal penalties.
President Trump’s latest order would remove all federal funding from educational programs that allow males to compete in girls’ sports.
It also directs the U.S. Department of Justice to prioritize enforcement of Title IX laws banning sexual discrimination against schools that fail to provide girls with an equal opportunity by allowing men to compete against them.
“This is demeaning, unfair, and dangerous to women and girls, and denies women and girls the equal opportunity to participate and excel in competitive sports,” said Trump in his order.
“It shall also be the policy of the United States to oppose male competitive participation in women’s sports more broadly, as a matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth,” he added.
The order establishes a new policy for the U.S. to promote rules banning men from women’s sports on an international level, for institutions such as the Olympic Committee, instead of prioritizing the spread of left-wing ideology abroad.
By continuing to allow males to compete in girls’ sports, the DOE and the Maine Principals’ Association (MPA) are exposing themselves and the state’s public schools to a possible loss of funding and costly federal discrimination lawsuits.
The MPA and local schools appear to be complying with the DOE’s January directive rather than Trump’s order, and continue to allow males’ participation in girls’ sports.
The Maine Wire spoke to a concerned coach, Allen Cornwall, who has been fighting for female athletes against radical gender ideology in sports.
Cornwall informed us that, despite the order, a male from Greeley High School was set to compete in the girls’ pole-vaulting competition at Friday’s Western Maine Conference Championship.
“They’re [the transgender student] going to be the conference champion, quote unquote girls Conference champion. They’ll be the quote unquote girls state champion for the class B athlete. And these girls that have been competing for years, working towards this, are just being sidelined, and it’s really disgusting,” said Cornwall.
Cornwall, who refused to judge the event in protest, told The Maine Wire that the transgender-identifying student competed in the boys’ pole vault competition for two years, where he was a mid-range athlete achieving around 12 feet, a moderate height for males.
Since transitioning and competing against female students, he has dominated and currently ranks among the top ten girls in pole vaulting.
If he reaches his previous height of 12 feet, he will be ranked alongside the only girl in Maine history to have achieved that feat.
The Maine Wire reached out to the MPA, asking if they intend to persist with their current policy even at the risk of losing federal funding and facing discrimination investigations, but the group did not immediately reply.
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when the fund drys up the state will fold real quick. we are forced to vacinate our kids for all kinds of nonsense, just so the school doesnt lose funding… all a show
No big balls in the department of ed.
the problem with maine.
No problem, the state indoctrination centers are going to lose funding anyway when school choice is established. The transvestites can play with themselves.
Unbelievable .
WTF has happened to the state of Maine .?,
Where have all these lunatics come from ?
I am ashamed to tell people where I am from .
We need to take this state back in 2026 and return some much needed sanity to our lives .
Democrats are destroying us .
What these queer boys need more than a girls trophy is a good punch in the mouth .
Class action lawsuit brought by the parents of the girls who are being forced to compete with the men .
Sue the Maine Dept of Ed. for ten million dollars times the number of girls who participate in Maine sports . A fast billion maybe .
THAT might get the attention of these nazis in Augusta .
Anyone wanna join me in protesting these boys competing against our girls during these sporting events?
My daughter was forbidden from Varsity soccer – be me.
F Augusta and every tranny apologist who made that moment a reality
Selfish freakes
Slow but sure. Liberals have alienated school age girls, the only future voting girls from this generation to vote democrat will have balls.
A fraction of one percent does not have the right to dismiss the rights of the other 99 % Tranny Tranny Tranny. Nancy Mace has bigger balls than Angus the Marxist who still supports UNRWA a terrorist org funded by USAID. And while we;re at it, lets audit the Maine dept of Ed. I;ll leave you with a question- Why was Randi Weingarten in Ukraine? I smell a kickback demon-rat.
I thought no one is above the law
Son
The parents and everyone else who let boys do this are not right in the head.
Neither are the parents and school employees who allow kids to pretend to be cats and dogs like they do in So. Ptld.
These mostly transplanted liberals that control Maine govt, care more about throwing a Trump hissy fit than they care about the girls and women they supposedly represent! Disgusting! We NEED to vote them out!
The Communist Democrats remain fully committed to rejecting common sense and President Trump’s executive orders !
Comrade Millstone doesn’t need federal funding when she has all the property owners in Maine to foot the bill for her sick fetish, via higher property taxes. INFURIATING !!! EVERY democRAT in Maine needs to GO !!!!!!
Evil cannot change, it does not know, nor can it understand righteousness. It is sad individuals do not understand this. Evil does not go away by ignoring it, instead it grows, we cannot be complacent in its removal – it takes good to destroy it. It does not take a lot of work to stop it, get out and vote, voice your opinion, make it known you will not allow it – don’t sit back and wait for someone else, evil expects you to do nothing, show that you will not accept it, do your part to stop it. Let evil know you will not support them or their ideas, and do what you can to get them out of office.
When did the people of Maine hire all these freaks/weirdos
While president Trump is looking at dismantling the federal DOE, Maine should look at doing the same here. Democrats learned nothing in November, but I have a feeling their day is coming, the next round of elections will tell the story!
Sick demented perverts.
don’t you get it libs girls don’t want boys on girl sports or in the locker room..
if your kid is injured sew and start with individual school board members.
The Maine DOE should all be fired! They are either sick closet pedos , are just plain evil and don’t believe in god, or are cowards and won’t stand up for what’s right! Protect our kids you loosers!
Maine is in serious trouble! We can’t wait till 2026, we need recall petitions now, for Janet Mills, Pender Makin and for ALL the democrats in the state legislature! If Jared Golden is serious about his frustrations with his party, then he needs to step up and be part of this conversation. The people of Maine are sick and tired of our state government not representing us and violating our rights! You don’t viiolate FEDERAL LAW to make a point. If you do, then you need to be arrested and removed from office!
“Maine SAU’s are expected to abide by the Maine HUMAN RIGHTS Acts, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of protected classes [ ]. Protected classes include: race, color, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, [ ].” What am I missing? Last I knew sex meant male & female. boys & girls So why aren’t the GIRLS getting a fair chance in GIRLS sports? Where’s the outrage from the feminists?
The present bunch in Augusta is of course out of touch with reality. However, what right does the POTUS have to govern by issuing executive edicts ? If the Federal government thinks it should get into the business of children’s sports, let them pass laws and see if they hold up legally.
Not surprising. Education in the State has fallen to last in the nation In 2017, Maine used to rank 19th. Who’s been in charge of the State’s government during that time? Janet Mills has been in office since 2019. There’s the problem.
Thank you Coach Cornwall for knowing boys do not belong in girls sports and for speaking out. Maine seems to think they are above the law in protecting kids in sports and in gender affirming care. Please put your love for Maine children above your hate for Trump.
Twist the Federal Funding to Maine schools to OFF. No comment needed. Quietly turn to OFF.
I see a couple of options here. This will allow parents to sue the ever living snot out of towns or the State of Maine that defy an executive order like this one. Or, when the next retard Satanist democrat president signs an executive order states with common sense like Florida can stick up their middle fingers and say FU.
Financial ruin and lockup the politicians.
So the politicians who back this must be like Biden and shower with their children, otherwise why would anyone think it is ok for a male to be in a women’s bathroom, locker room. It is time for girls to just say no and not participate
Woman, Girls, refuse to play.
I have a son. If he ever even used a bathroom labeled for women, the next one he would use would be labeled handicapped.
Okay, cut all of Maine’s funding!
Meanwhile, it’s up to biological girls to fight the MDOE. Stop competing on teans with biological males! Stop competing against teams with biological males!
Take back your rights as females!
You’ve seen what can happen nationally when you stand up for your rights!
Now do it on a state level!
This is YOUR battle to win or lose.
Don’t let unelected idiot bureaucrats at MDOE decide for you!
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
MONEY TALKS, BULLSHIT WALKS.
as one commenter made this is up the girls and their parents. Bring a lawsuit, don’t participate, etc. As long as they continue to validate this sick behavior it will continue.
What the hell? Allowing sick mentally ill freaks to compete in sports is demented. Only from sick mentally ill freak in Augusta is this possible, the DOE is criminal cabal! C’mon man!
Homosexuality is a huge problem in infidel communities.
Defund the infidel homosexual educators now!
This makes me so sad for the girls and women of Maine. I was born and raised in Maine and am appalled. All the work done over the years for the the feminist movement thrown in the trash.
Please ask Senator Collins what side she is on with this issue.
New to Maine. I have 3 grown girls. I would not allow them to compete against boys. It would tech them that they are subservient. Pull your daughters out for a season. They will fold.
What is wrong with Mills