Attorney General Pam Bondi Sues Maine for Title IX Violations
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced a civil lawsuit against Maine’s Department of Education, charging the state with “discriminating against women by failing to protect women in women’s sports.”
In a news briefing, Bondi had some strong words about the Maine Department of Education for violating Title IX, part of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in education.
The Attorney General stated,
Today, the Department of Justice is announcing a civil lawsuit against the Maine Department of Education. The state of Maine is discriminating against women by failing to protect women in women’s sports.
Pretty basic stuff. This is a violation of Title IX. The Department of Justice will not sit by when women are discriminated against in sports. This is about sports.
This is also about these young women’s personal safety.
Bondi introduced several female athletes at the news briefing, “Fencer Zoe Hutchison, a Maine athlete. Cassidy Carlisle, a Maine athlete and my dear friend – you all know Riley Gaines, who has been a champion on this issue for women.”
The announcement came after the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights investigated the Maine Department of Education for allowing males to compete in girls and women’s sports.
Also present were Secretary of Education Linda McMahon; Linnea Saltz, a track athlete and advocate for women’s sports; Stephanie Turner, who received a year-long suspension from fencing after refusing to compete against a male athlete; and Representative Laurel Libby who is suing the Maine State House after it barred her from speaking or voting – all because she spoke out against a male athlete who won the state girls pole vaulting championship.
The DOE found the state’s education department, along with the Maine Principal’s Association and Greely High School, had discriminated against female athletes, violating Title IX prohibitions.
The U.S. education department proposed actions that the Maine Department of Education could take to repair the damage, such as directing public schools to follow Title IX or risk losing funding, acknowledging there are only two sexes, segregating bathrooms and locker rooms based on sex, and stopping boys from competing in girls sports.
Maine refused to comply, so the DOE referred the matter to the Department of Justice.
In February, Governor Janet Mills doubled down on the state’s discrimination against girls and women.
When asked whether her state would follow President Donald Trump’s executive order protecting girls and women’s sports, the governor replied the state was “complying with state and federal laws.”
President Trump disagreed, responding, “We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funding at all if you don’t.”
Mills then replied that she would see Trump in court.
So she’s getting her wish.
Following the press conference, Education Secretary McMahon clarified for CNN’s Kasie Hunt exactly why males don’t belong in female sports,
Title IX was established to protect women, to allow them to compete in sports on a level playing field. What has happened now with transgenders, whether it‘s one or two, 22 dozen, or 100 … when you start with one, that deprives females – from getting a slot for a scholarship or a slot on the team – or getting beaten out in the competition simply because they‘re competing against a male.
She added, “It is just totally unfair, and it’s against the law. It is absolutely against federal law.”
McMahon told Hunt about the pain that girl athletes felt when, after years of pain, effort, training and practice, they lost to a male athlete. She reiterated that Title IX is a federal law that is being violated – not just a presidential executive order.
Then she explained basic biology to the CNN host, who seemed more concerned about the sexually confused males than the girls harmed by their actions,
There are two sexes. There‘s male and female. So transgender doesn‘t have a play in this. You’re born a boy, you‘re a boy. You‘re born a girl, you‘re a girl.
So even with puberty blocking hormones, etc., males are still stronger. Their structure is different. They can perform very differently in competition. We have to respect and understand that and give women the rights that they have under this title nine.
Linda McMahon continues to drop intellectual bombs on these “journalists” : 🔥
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) April 16, 2025
“There are two sexes. There‘s male and female. So transgender doesn‘t have a play in this. You’re born a boy, you‘re a boy. You‘re born a girl, you‘re a girl…
…even with puberty blocking hormones,… pic.twitter.com/uSb8z7SO60
It’s unclear exactly why leftist politicians and media hosts have subscribed to gender ideology – a dogma that sexualizes and confuses girls and boys, harming them and their families.
Thankfully, there is a growing pushback against the incoherent, illogical gender theory which asserts that people can change into the opposite sex, there are an infinitude of “genders,” and bodily sex can be separated from “gender identity.”
Bondi stated strongly that she will continue to fight for girls and women, and she applauded the young women and parents who are battling injustice.
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