The Trump administration is suing the state of Maine over its defiance of federal Title IX antidiscrimination law by allowing transgender girls to participate on girls’ teams.
“We are going to continue to fight for women,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said at a news conference. Bondi was joined by noted advocate for fairness in women’s sports, Riley Gaines.
“Let this be a notice – California, Minnesota, and the likes thereof – if you do not comply with federal law, you do not get to reap the benefits of complying with federal law,” Bondi said. “Of course, one of those benefits being receiving federal funds. Women are protected and recognized under federal law – again, that law being Title IX,” Gaines said.
The lawsuit comes at time when the push for women’s rights in sports received a major boost as the highest court in Great Britain “affirmed that the legal definition of ‘woman’ refers specifically to those born biologically female, excluding biological men who ‘identify’ as women from that category,” as PJM’s Matt Margolis reported in covering the decision by the UK Supreme Court.
“Everyone knows what sex is and you can’t change it,” said Susan Smith, co-director of For Women Scotland, which brought the case and was quoted by the Associated Press. “It’s common sense, basic common sense, and the fact that we have been down a rabbit hole where people have tried to deny science and to deny reality, and hopefully this will now see us back to — back to reality.”
“The Department of Justice will not sit by when women are discriminated against in sports,” Bondi said at the press conference. “We believe they (Maine) are failing to protect women. … We are seeking an injunction to get them to stop this, stop what they’re doing. That’s pretty simple, and we are seeking to have the titles returned to the young women who rightfully won these sports.”
You’ve got to hand it to trans advocates, but believing you’re a different sex is hugely different from actually being another sex. There’s no biological evidence that trans women are actually women in any sense of the word beyond personal testimony. Even so, trans advocates have constructed a legal and political framework based on a gigantic game of “pretend.”
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The lawsuit reflects a stark philosophical turnabout from the position on gender identity issues taken during Democratic administrations.
Under President Joe Biden, the government tried to extend civil rights policies to protect transgender people. In 2016, the Justice Department, then led by Attorney General Loretta Lynch, sued North Carolina over a law that required transgender people to use public restrooms and showers that corresponded to the gender on their birth certificate.
Maine officials have refused to agree with a settlement that would have banned transgender students from sports, arguing that the law does not prevent schools from letting transgender athletes participate.
Gaines, who met with Donald Trump after the election, called the president a “man of his promises, and that’s what we’ve seen delivered.”
“Promises made, promises kept,” she said.
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