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Trump Defunds School Lunches In Maine Over Transgender People

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Trump Defunds School Lunches In Maine Over Transgender People

“Even if the State of Maine were in violation of Title IX (and, to be clear, it is not), there are statutory and regulatory requirements that the federal government must comply with before it may freeze federal funds owed to a state,” the lawsuit says. “The Secretary followed none of those procedures here. Her action is arbitrary, capricious, not in accordance with law, and did not observe procedures required by law.”

Earlier this month, Rollins sent a letter to Maine Governor Janet Mills, which was obtained by Reuters. "I am freezing Maine's federal funds for certain administrative and technical functions in schools,” Rollins’ letter says. “This is only the beginning, though you are free to end it at any time by protecting women and girls in compliance with federal law.”

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  • This whole thing has been such a naked attack on trans people, public education, and the state it's absurd that nobody seems to see what is going on. It all started because a trans girl competed in the pole vault here. Now as someone that participated in high school track in Maine I can definitively say that nobody except the couple dozen girls who compete in it care about high school girls pole vault here. A few years ago a trans girl that ran in a cross country race was also targeted despite people caring even less about girl's cross country.

    There are a lot of problems with women's high school sports here. They underfunded, there's basically nobody to coach them, they lack adequate facilities, transportation, and equipment, they don't even really get attention in the local news. These fascist hogs don't give a shit about any of that though.

    Now maybe it's a bit conspiratorial, but these attacks on Maine coincide with state Republicans unprecedented efforts to cause a months long government shutdown with a people's veto of the proposed budget law. I personally believe that this is not just a spontaneous attack on trans kids or rebellious governors, but a test case to see if the Republicans can effectively gut state governments through quasi-legal means where they otherwise couldn't win power through elections.

    It's the only thing that really makes sense. All these cuts will fall way harder on Northern Maine (which is Trump Country) than liberal Southern Maine. They don't like trans kids but they're not targeting the big liberal states over the same issue. They certainly don't care about girls sports. It would fall right in line with Project 2025 to strangle a small purplish state until it gives in just enough for Republicans to take power and then set us back 40 years though. And if it works here they'll try it out in other states. They're targeting Maine because it's isolated from the national consciousness but there's plenty of states with slimmer Democratic majorities that would be easier to topple.

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