Using the US Supreme Court (Alito 5) decision on Civil Rights….
The Trump Admin is working hard to get rid of ANY efforts to level the playing field in racial or sexual orientation support by the Federal Govt.
The history of America for the past half a century HAS BEEN to deal with past inequalities in how classes of American’s have been treated …
No More by Trump’s Government…
Using the power of the Government Revenue?
The President and his minions have beeen hard at work trying go BACKWARDS …
The Maine Governor has refused to bend to Trump’s wishes…
Maine IS under attack by the United States of America in the name of Donald Trump….
Donald does NOT have any kids in Maine school’s anyways, eh?…
The move marks a major and retaliatory step forward in how far the administration is willing to go to force state governments to adhere to executive orders.
Last month, the U.S. Education Department began an investigation into a claim that the Maine Department of Education was in violation of Title IX — a civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in education programs receiving federal assistance — by allowing a trans athlete to participate in women’s sports.
The U.S. Education Department’s “findings and proposed resolution agreement demonstrate to [the Maine Department of Education] and any other entity receiving federal funding that the Trump Administration will not tolerate unlawful discrimination against girls and women,” the federal agency said in a news release last month.
In a Friday letter to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, Sarah Forster, the state assistant attorney general, said Maine would not sign the resolution agreement, writing that the state and the federal government were “at an impasse.”
“Nothing in Title IX or its implementing regulations prohibits schools from allowing transgender girls and women to participate on girls’ and women’s sports teams,” Forster wrote.
“Your letters to date do not cite a single case that so holds. To the contrary, various federal courts have held that Title IX and/or the Equal Protection Clause require schools to allow such participation,” she added…
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On Feb. 5, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning transgender athletes from women’s sports and denying federal funding for schools that allow participation. That led to a heated exchange at a National Governors Association meeting on Feb. 21.
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