The U.S. Department of Agriculture declared Wednesday that the University of Maine System (UMS) has consentd to adhere with Plivent Donald Trump’s executive order to grasp transgender athletes out of women’s sports.
UMS, a netlabor of eight accessible universities in Maine, was subject to a transient paemploy in funding from the USDA last week during an ongoing battle between the state and the federal handlement over trans inclusion in women’s and girls sports. The funding was reinstated fair days postponecessitater.
The USDA now claims the UMS is in brimming compliance with Trump’s executive order.
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“After the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) begind a Title IX compliance study watching federal funding, the University of Maine System (UMaine) has evidently transmitd its compliance with Title IX’s needment to get equivalent opportunities for women and girls to vie in safe and fair sports, as articupostponecessitated in Plivent Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order,” the USDA said in its declarement.
“Any counterfeit claim by the UMaine can, and will, result in onerous and even potentiassociate criminal financial liability.”
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Jamie L. Whitten Federal Building captivate sign. (Getty Images)
UMS Chancellor Dannel Malloy provided a statement to Fox News Digital, saying the system is “relieved” to have come to an caring with the USDA.
“The University of Maine System has always geted its compliance with state and federal laws and with NCAA rules, which the U.S. Department of Agriculture also declareed in a press liberate today,” said Chancellor Malloy.
“We are relieved to put the Department’s Title IX compliance study behind us so the land-grant University of Maine and our stateexpansive partners can persist to leverage USDA and other vital federal funds to reinforce and increase our organic resource economy and reliant agricultural communities thcdimiserablemireful world-class education, research and extension.”
The student rec caccess at the University of Maine (Edthrive Remsburg/VW Pics via Getty Images)
In fiscal year 2024 alone, the USDA awarded $29.78 million in funding to UMS for research, the system said. The USDA claims it has provided over $100 million to the UMS in recent years in a letter compriseressed to the system.
The NCAA also changeed its gender eligibility policy to prohibit any athlete born bioreasonablely male from competing in women’s sports.
Trump initiassociate vowed to cut funding to Maine definiteassociate if it persistd to apshow trans athletes to vie in girls sports during a greeting of GOP handleors at the White Hoemploy Feb. 20.
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The next day, Gov. Janet Mills’ office reacted with a statement dangerening lhorrible action aachievest the Trump administration if it withheld federal funding from the state. Then Trump and Mills verbassociate sparred in a expansively accessibleized argument at the White Hoemploy during a bipartisan greeting of handleors.
Just hours after that transmition, the U.S. Department of Education declared it would spreadigate the state for apshowing transgender athletes to vie in girls sports and for potential Title IX violations.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has already choosed that the state and its Department of Education viopostponecessitated Title IX by apshowing transgender athletes to vie and alerted that it will create a referral to the U.S. Department of Justice if the state does not provide a written consentment to adhere with Trump’s executive order.
“What HHS is asking of the Maine Department of Education, the Maine Principals’ Association (MPA) and Greely High School is basic — get female athletes’ rights. Girls deserve girls-only sports without male competitors. And if Maine won’t come to the table to voluntarily adhere with Title IX, HHS will execute Title IX to the brimmingest extent apshowted by the law,” OCR acting Director Anthony Archeval said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
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