Maine Gov. suggests Trump will goal in response to race amid trans athlete restrain

Maine Governor Janet Generators excepted a commentary on Friday in line with the announcement that the U.S. Section of Schooling will probably be investigating her order for permitting trans athletes to compete in ladies’ sports activities, defying a contemporary govt form through President Donald Trump. 

In Generators’ commentary, she steered that Trump’s investigation into her order’s possible Identify IX violations is a trademark that the president will upcoming goal family in response to their race or faith. 

“Maine may [be] one of the first states to undergo an investigation by his administration, but we won’t be the last. Today, the President of the United States has targeted one particular group on one particular issue which Maine law has addressed. But you must ask yourself: who and what will he target next, and what will he do? Will it be you? Will it be because of your race or your religion? Will it be because you look different or think differently? Where does it end? In America, the President is neither a King nor a dictator, as much as this one tries to act like it – and it is the rule of law that prevents him from being so,” Generators mentioned. 

“I imagine that the outcome of this politically directed investigation is all but predetermined. My Administration will begin work with the Attorney General to defend the interests of Maine people in the court of law. But do not be misled: this is not just about who can compete on the athletic field, this is about whether a President can force compliance with his will, without regard for the rule of law that governs our nation. I believe he cannot.”

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Generators additionally insisted that Trump has refuse authority to restrain federal investment from her order for refusing to conform along with his fresh govt form to restrain trans athletes from ladies’ and ladies’s sports activities, which the president vowed to do in a accent on Thursday. 

“No President – Republican or Democrat – can withhold Federal funding authorized and appropriated by Congress and paid for by Maine taxpayers in an attempt to coerce someone into compliance with his will. It is a violation of our Constitution and of our laws, which I took an oath to uphold,” Generators mentioned. 

Maine is the fourth order to have a Identify IX investigation introduced towards it for defying Trump’s form because it used to be signed on Feb. 5. The DOE introduced on Feb. 12 it will be investigating the highschool athletic associations in California and Minnesota upcoming the ones states refused to agree to Trump’s fresh form. 

Sooner than that, the DOE introduced on Feb. 6 it will examine the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Affiliation (MIAA) along San Jose Atmosphere College and the College of Pennsylvania for possible Identify IX violations. 

Now, Maine joins that record upcoming a confrontational two days between Trump and Generators. 

It began on Thursday when Trump vowed to snip investment to the order for refusing to apply his form throughout a meeting of Republican governors in Washington. 

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“I hate to tell you this, but we’re not going to give them any federal money, they are still saying ‘we want men to play in women’s sports’ and I can not believe that they’re doing that… So we’re not going to give them any federal funding, none whatsoever, until they clean that up.”

In keeping with the Nationwide Middle for Schooling Statistics, Maine gained greater than $360 million, or about 10.1 p.c of its schooling investment, from the government within the 2021-22 fiscal era.

On Friday, Generators’ place of job spoke back with a commentary threatening prison motion towards the Trump Management if it did restrain federal investment from the order. After, Trump and Generators verbally sparred in a widely-publicized argument on the White Area throughout a bipartisan assembly of governors. 

“Are you not going to comply with that?” Trump requested Generators.

“I’m complying with state and federal laws,” she spoke back, earlier than Trump mentioned “Well, we are the federal law” and “you better do it, you better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funding at all if you don’t.

“And through the way in which, your community, although it’s quite liberality, even if I did really well there, your community doesn’t need males enjoying in ladies’s sports activities, so that you higher comply as a result of differently you’re now not getting any federal investment,” Trump continued.

“We’ll goodbye in court docket,” Mills responded. 

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“Excellent, I’ll goodbye in court docket. I stay up for that. That are meant to be an actual simple one. And revel in your era upcoming governor as a result of I don’t assume you’ll be in elected politics,” Trump concluded.

The DOE investigation against Maine was announced just hours later. 

Maine came under national scrutiny for allowing trans athletes in girls’ sports amid the state’s refusal to comply with Trump’s order and a recent incident involving a trans pole vaulter. 

During a state championship track and field meet, Katie Spencer, who previously competed as a male named John Rydzewski in pole-vaulting as recently as June 2024, out-jumped every other female by half a foot. Spencer’s winning pole vault was pivotal in helping Spencer’s track and field team at Greely High School in Cumberland, Maine, win the Class B state championship meet by just a single point.

Due to the win, Spencer has now automatically qualified for the multistate regional championships, taking the spot that would have been awarded to the female athlete who garnered second place had Spencer competed in the boys’ division.

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A female high school track and field athlete praised Trump for intervening in the situation on Friday. 

Zoe, who competed in shot put at Maine’s Class B state indoor championship meet on Monday, said she is “thankful” for the president’s announcement that he will be cutting federal funding to Maine over its defiance of Trump’s order to keep men out of women’s sports, adding that leaders in the state “have failed our feminine athletes.” 

“Atmosphere leaders have failed our feminine athletes and there must be aftereffects for his or her forget,” Zoe said. “We really feel evident and heard as a result of this announcement and hope that steps will proceed to be made to give protection to ladies’s sports activities in Maine.”

In a statement to Fox News Digital, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “Partisan elected officers and judicial activists who search to legally impede President Trump’s schedule are defying the desire of 77 million American citizens who overwhelmingly re-elected President Trump,” and added that “their efforts will fail.”

“All of President Trump’s govt movements are lawful, constitutional and meant in order at the guarantees he made to the American family,” Leavitt said. “The Trump Management is ready to struggle those battles in court docket and can be successful.”

Fox News Digital’s Alex Schemel contributed to this report.

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