The most incompetent Attorney General in the history of this country, Pam Bondi, announced the Administration is suing the state of Maine for NOT discriminating against the transgender community.
In February, Trump, at a meeting of the Governors, singled out the Governor of Maine, Janet Mills, demanding that Maine follow his orders and discriminate against transgender athletes by preventing them from participating in sports. As of right now, there are only two transgender athletes playing sports in Maine schools, so MAGA is intentionally elevating this issue to "crisis" status hoping that bigotry will help them avoid criticism for their numerous other mistakes, and win over public support.
At that time, the Governor of Maine said, "See you in court."
So here we are.
Moving past the press corps asking Bondi to explain why THIS was such a top issue while they are intentionally ignoring court orders by leaving Kilmar Abrego Garcia in an El Salvadoran gulag, a fact Bondi deflected by once again OUTRIGHT LYING about Garcia's history and background, the lawsuit itself seems to rest it's argument on MISQUOTING the law within Title IX, and omiting the CLEAR language which says as long as the sport is not a contact sport, anyone can try out for any team. I would hope that we get past the point of even limiting contact sports, but we have to fight the fight in front of us right now.
I bring this up not to mislabel transgender athletes. They're able to choose which team they play on, like I presume they would allow me to choose which team I should play on. This is more to directly take down the Trump Administration's bigoted narrative. The law says, as long as it's not a contact sport, ANYONE can try out for the team.
Bondi and Trump can't do anything to stop that.
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