This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
President Donald Trump has fought to protect girls and women in their sporting events, as leftists try to flood the competitions with boys and men who say they are female.
One state has refused to go along with the president's executive orders, and now is facing an escalated fight because of the agenda demanded by its governor, Janet Mills, a Democrat who publicly defied the president, threatening that she would see him in court.
Earlier, a variety of federal funding programs for the state were blocked by the president, and now the Washington Stand reports the Trump administration has taken legal action to cut off K-12 funding for the state.
It's over the state's promotion of transgender agenda points, in which boys and men are allowed in sports created for females.
The report explained, "The Department of Education announced last Friday that it had initiated an administrative proceeding to terminate all K-12 funding to the Maine Department of Education, 'including formula and discretionary grants,' over Title IX violations by allowing males who identify as female to compete against and change in front of girls."
The federal government is considering legal action by the Department of Justice against state actors.
"The Department has given Maine every opportunity to come into compliance with Title IX, but the state's leaders have stubbornly refused to do so, choosing instead to prioritize an extremist ideological agenda over their students' safety, privacy, and dignity," said Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor
The situation right now is that the Department of Education has ruled the state is failing to comply with federal government orders.
State officials have doubled down, refusing to resolve the fight.
While state officials have claimed, "Nothing in Title IX or its implementing regulations prohibits schools from allowing transgender [boys] and [men] to participate on girls' and women's sports teams," the report pointed out that the Nixon administration "explicitly enacted Title IX to create adequate funding and a level playing ground for female athletes. Males are not females."
Nicholas Adolphsen, of the Christian Civic League of Maine, told the Washington Stand, "It's a strange day when you have to go all the way to Washington, D.C., to be heard — but that's exactly what Maine people have had to do. While Governor Mills and Attorney General Frey push a radical agenda, doubling down on boys in girls' sports, President Trump is standing up for Maine's young women and the basic fairness Title IX was built on. Mills and Frey seem to only be listening to the far-left — while the concerns of everyday Mainers are being brushed aside."
The fight is expected to reach the U.S. Supreme Court.
Already, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins halted some funding of unspecified "administrative and technological functions in schools," the report said. And the USDA paused $100 million to the University of Maine System, later allowing it to be disbursed.
The federal government also has halted some funding to Maine prisons.
WND reported when Mills was at a National Governors Association attended by the president and shouted, "See you in court" at him.
It's not the only fight triggered by the state's leftist officials. Democrats in the legislature have ruled that a representative from one district who criticized the transgender agenda has no right to represent her constituents and cannot vote on legislation, or speak in the legislature.
Courts already are reviewing those restrictions on First Amendment rights.
