Maine’s early positioning of itself as a state that would not comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order protecting women’s sports put it on the Trump administration’s radar in a big way, setting the stage for the confrontation that happened at the White House in late February between Trump and the state’s Democrat governor, Janet Mills.
And now, thanks in part to their continued defiance, along with Republican state lawmaker Laurel Libby, who has been determined to keep the Pine Tree State’s failure to protect women in the national spotlight, Maine has entered the FAFO stage.
As RedState reported, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Wednesday that the DOJ would be filing a lawsuit against Maine’s Department of Education on grounds that they are violating Title IX. The DOJ “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 said in the press conference where she announced the decision.
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Predictably, Mills has proceeded to dig herself a deeper hole, calling the press conference, where female athletes directly and negatively impacted by the inclusion of transgender persons in their sports spoke, a “diversionary tactic” from “the real issues” Americans are facing:
Mills also said the lawsuit is a tactic that distracts from other pressing issues facing the nation like the state of the economy, and it’s not about “who plays on the athletic field.”
“To me, these kinds of actions and press conferences are a diversionary tactic from what the real issues are facing families across Maine and families across the United States,” said Mills. “The price of eggs, the price of bread, the price of fuel, the price of housing and construction costs, the cost of a new truck or an old truck or a vehicle of any kind.”
Watch:
It gets worse…
Earlier today, Governor Mills called the plight of these brave young women a “diversionary tactic,” and said men competing in women’s sports was not a “real issue.” pic.twitter.com/F34kKQR8Ro
— The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) April 17, 2025
So female athletes getting seriously injured by transgender athletes, which has happened so many times that I’ve lost count, is not a “real issue” to Janet Mills. Females who have lost sports competitions to males and had their safe spaces invaded by men identifying as women in dressing rooms, locker rooms, etc, are not “real issues” to Mills.
What an especially outrageous comment to make, considering what the female sports figures who live in Maine had to say on the subject during the DOJ presser:
“Even though my own governor isn’t fighting for me, I know there are people out there fighting for me.”
Amazing words from Maine high school athletes Cassidy Carlisle and Zoe Hutchins. pic.twitter.com/1SZEiXVysK
— The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) April 16, 2025
Save Women’s Sports spokeswoman Riley Gaines, an outspoken advocate for protecting women’s sports who has traveled the country to inform and educate people on the issue, was especially livid over Mills’ refusal to reverse course, issuing this emotional statement at the Wednesday DOJ presser:
“I’m sure you guys saw the clips and the visuals that surfaced following President Trump’s executive order signing of this EO barring men from participating in women’s sports within any educational program that receives federal funding. And it was the most amazing thing to be there. And you have all of these young girls, I’m talking five, six, seven, eight years old. They’ve got their jerseys on, their sports uniforms, their big bows in their hair that they wear on the soccer field.
That visual means more to me than I could possibly put into words, and that is what is at stake here. That is who Governor Mills is fighting, not Donald Trump. It’s those little girls, and I believe that’s sick.”
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.@Riley_Gaines_ calls out Governor Mills for REFUSING to protect young female athletes:
“That is who Governor Mills is fighting, not Donald Trump, it is those little girls and I believe that is sick.” pic.twitter.com/l9WRK9oqmr
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) April 16, 2025
‘Nuff said.
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