Friday is the official deadline Main to follow It puts President Donald Trump’s executive order “protect men from women’s sports” or a second referral to the Department of Justice.
The Main Principal Association (MPA) and the Maine Department of Education It has already been introduced It faces a potential second referral by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DOJ) on Friday. The state has also seen a freeze on funding from the USDA due to continued non-compliance.
The MPA and its president, Kim Liscom, are undergoing local scrutiny for not modifying its policy on inclusion of transathletes in public schools.
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MPA has released addressing statement This scrutiny The association also refuses to change its gender eligibility policy, suggesting that it may change the policy if the law is introduced.
“Last year, Kim Liscom, chairman of the Main Principal Association board, faithfully performed her duties in leading our organization, which could be related to the Main Principal Association’s Sports Participation Policy.
“In his role as MPA president, Kim has demonstrated his commitment to guiding MPAs with extensive experience in leadership, compassion and education.
Maine residents agree to keep trans athletes out of women’s and women’s sports, polls
The MPA has previously worked on its first introduction to the DOJ and continues to ban trans athletes from girls’ sports in order to add gender identity as a protected class, citing the Maine Human Rights Act (MHRA), amended four years ago.
“The Maine Principal Association is bound by laws including the Maine Human Rights Act (MHRA), and participation policies reflect that,” the official said. “We cannot sign a resolution agreement that requires us to create new policies that violate the law and the MHRA.”
The MHRA’s gender identity amendment stated that denying people equal opportunities to participate in sports is discrimination against education. The Main Principal Association has updated its policy to allow athletes to compete with the genders they identified as last year.
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University of New Hampshire Opinion polls released last week Most Maine residents have shown they agreed that trans athletes should not compete in female and female sports.
Polls showed that 64% of Maine residents think that trans athletes “must not be” or “maybe not be involved in ‘girl or women’ sports.” Only 29% of Maine residents believed that trans athletes should “perhaps think they should “be “undetectedly.”
According to the poll, 56% Main Democrats I believe that trans athletes should be allowed to compete in women’s and women’s sports.
When it comes to enact policies to address the issue of transgender participation in sports, polls show that 50% of Maine residents want it at the federal level, with 41% thinking that the policy should be left to the state.
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