The College of Maine system has agreed to exclude males from ladies’s sports activities to take care of its federal funding.
The U.S. Division of Agriculture introduced the college’s compliance in a press launch earlier this week.
“After america Division of Agriculture (USDA) initiated a Title IX compliance evaluate concerning federal funding, the College of Maine System (UMaine) has clearly communicated its compliance with Title IX’s requirement to guard equal alternatives for girls and ladies to compete in secure and truthful sports activities, as articulated in President Donald J. Trump’s Government Order,” the division’s press launch stated.
The division continued, “Any false declare by the UMaine can, and can, end in onerous and even probably prison monetary legal responsibility.”
“UMaine’s determination to aspect with sanity is a win for girls and ladies in Maine,” it stated.
College of Maine System Spokesperson Samantha Warren advised Campus Reform that the college will stay in compliance.
“Maine’s public universities have ALWAYS been compliant with State and Federal legal guidelines and with NCAA guidelines, and we remained compliant when the NCAA up to date its guidelines in February,” Warren stated.
Final month, the Division of Schooling launched an investigation into Maine’s compliance with Title IX legal guidelines after Democrat Maine Governor Janet Mills clashed with President Donald Trump at a Nationwide Governors Affiliation (NGA) assembly over organic males competing in opposition to females. Throughout the assembly, she claimed that she would see Trump in court docket to combat him over the difficulty.
“As we speak the U.S. Division of Schooling’s Workplace for Civil Rights (OCR) despatched a letter to the Maine Division of Schooling Commissioner Pender Makin saying that OCR is initiating a directed investigation of the Maine Division of Schooling (MDOE) amid allegations that it continues to permit male athletes to compete in ladies’ interscholastic athletics and that it has denied feminine athletes female-only intimate amenities, thereby violating federal antidiscrimination legislation,” the DOE stated in a press launch.
“The letter additionally notifies MDOE that OCR is launching an investigation into Maine College Administrative District #51 (MSAD #51), after it was reported that Greely Excessive College, a college beneath its jurisdiction, is constant to permit not less than one male scholar to compete in ladies’ classes.”
Performing assistant secretary for civil rights Craig Trainor added:
“Maine would have you ever imagine that it has no alternative in the way it treats ladies and ladies in athletics – that’s, that it should comply with its state legal guidelines and permit male athletes to compete in opposition to ladies and ladies. Let me be clear: If Maine desires to proceed to obtain federal funds from the Schooling Division, it has to comply with Title IX. If it desires to forgo federal funds and proceed to trample the rights of its younger feminine athletes, that, too, is its alternative. OCR will do every little thing in its energy to make sure taxpayers will not be funding blatant civil rights violators.”
The Division of Schooling discovered Maine’s Division of Schooling to be in violation of Title IX on March 19.
