Federal civil servants start a 10-day

The Trump government has only given state officials 10 days to agree to a list of changes to avoid a potential federal action on transgender athletes.

On Monday, the US Ministry of Health (HHS) announced that the Maine Principals' Association (MPA) and the Greely High School had violated a state civil rights law by allowed transgender athletes to take part in girls sports. This was still an earlier statement that Maine's Ministry of Education had violated IX titles, which forbids sexual discrimination in schools and programs that received federal financing.

An eight -sided “resolving agreement” then describes how you can return to compliance with titles IX.

The headmaster association would have to ban transgender athletes from girls sports. The Greely High School in Cumberland would then have to follow the new politics. And the state would have to return more than 180,000 US dollars of HHS federal funds.

Jared Bornstein, a spokesman for the MPA, said the group prepared a formal reaction. However, Bornstein read from an MPA declaration that the group must receive direct or indirect funds from the Federal Government.

“In short, a small part of our financing comes from 151 member schools that receive most of their financing of local property taxes and the state,” the explanation said. “The vast majority of our funds come from ticket sales, sponsorship, streaming, television and other contracts. Therefore, it is MPA's position that HHS has no jurisdiction of title IX about MPA.”

Bornstein said that the MPA is also looking forward to a “robust debate” in the legislature about the Maine Human Rights Act of the Human Right Act of the Law, which prohibits discrimination based on the gender identity of a student. Several invoices try to change the directive.

Maine has been in the national ramp light since a Republican legislator, Rep. Laurel Libby von Auburn, who published the picture and name of a Greely High School Transgender Athlete on social media, who had won an athletics championship of girls. The post quickly became viral and finally became aware of President Donald Trump, who had signed an executive order in which transgender athletes from women's and girls sports were banned.

Trump later opened publicly with governor Janet Mills in a short, but-dense exchange that attracted national attention. When Trump Mills pushed about whether Maine would comply with the order of the executive, the governor said that the state was pursued by the state and the federal law and she would “see her in court”.

The Trump administration reacted with investigations to comply with title IX by Maine. The administration has also moved to hold back millions of dollars of federal financing of the state to reverse these decisions.