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Maine to Continue to Allow Boys to Compete in Girls Sports in Defiance of Trump Executive Order
Coach refuses to judge Friday event in protest
Seamus OthotBy Seamus OthotFebruary 7, 2025Updated:February 19, 202542 Comments4 Mins Read7K Views
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In the face of a new executive order issued by President Donald Trump on Wednesday imposing significant penalties on schools that allow males to compete in girls’ sports, the Maine Department of Education (DOE) maintained its commitment to radical gender ideology.
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“The Executive Order ‘Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government’ applies to the Federal government/Federal government agencies only and does not inhibit the force of Maine law or locally-adopted school board policies,” said the DOE in a priority notice on January 21, even before the latest White House executive order was issued.
While the state’s education department is currently holding firm in its commitment to the gender ideology that says a boy can identify as the opposite gender and compete against girls, and share their locker rooms and bathrooms, it may soon be forced to capitulate in the face of federal penalties.
President Trump’s latest order would remove all federal funding from educational programs that allow males to compete in girls’ sports.
It also directs the U.S. Department of Justice to prioritize enforcement of Title IX laws banning sexual discrimination against schools that fail to provide girls with an equal opportunity by allowing men to compete against them.
“This is demeaning, unfair, and dangerous to women and girls, and denies women and girls the equal opportunity to participate and excel in competitive sports,” said Trump in his order.
“It shall also be the policy of the United States to oppose male competitive participation in women’s sports more broadly, as a matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth,” he added.
The order establishes a new policy for the U.S. to promote rules banning men from women’s sports on an international level, for institutions such as the Olympic Committee, instead of prioritizing the spread of left-wing ideology abroad.
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By continuing to allow males to compete in girls’ sports, the DOE and the Maine Principals’ Association (MPA) are exposing themselves and the state’s public schools to a possible loss of funding and costly federal discrimination lawsuits.
The MPA and local schools appear to be complying with the DOE’s January directive rather than Trump’s order, and continue to allow males’ participation in girls’ sports.
The Maine Wire spoke to a concerned coach, Allen Cornwall, who has been fighting for female athletes against radical gender ideology in sports.
Cornwall informed us that, despite the order, a male from Greeley High School was set to compete in the girls’ pole-vaulting competition at Friday’s Western Maine Conference Championship.
“They’re [the transgender student] going to be the conference champion, quote unquote girls Conference champion. They’ll be the quote unquote girls state champion for the class B athlete. And these girls that have been competing for years, working towards this, are just being sidelined, and it’s really disgusting,” said Cornwall.
Cornwall, who refused to judge the event in protest, told The Maine Wire that the transgender-identifying student competed in the boys’ pole vault competition for two years, where he was a mid-range athlete achieving around 12 feet, a moderate height for males.
Since transitioning and competing against female students, he has dominated and currently ranks among the top ten girls in pole vaulting.
If he reaches his previous height of 12 feet, he will be ranked alongside the only girl in Maine history to have achieved that feat.
The Maine Wire reached out to the MPA, asking if they intend to persist with their current policy even at the risk of losing federal funding and facing discrimination investigations, but the group did not immediately reply.
https://www.themainewire.com/2025/02/maine-to-continue-to-allow-boys-to-compete-in-girls-sports-in-in-defiance-of-trump-executive-order/