Attorney General Pam Bondi warned the officials in Maine, California and Minnesota on Tuesday to meet President Trump’s executive orders in order to participate in transgender athletes from participating in girls and women’s sports, and quickly promised legal measures.
“This Ministry of Justice will keep responsible states and state units that violate the federal law,” Bondi wrote in letters on Tuesday, which on Janet Mills (D), California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) -Executive Director Ron Nocetti, Minnesota Gesizer Attorney Keith Ellison (D), and Erich Martens,, Executive Director of the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL).
Officials in each of the states said that state anti -discrimination laws that protect transgender people prevent them from fulfilling Trump’s command. One of several that the President has signed since returning to Targeting -Tranamans.
Trump card tense At a meeting of the National Governors Association last week in the White House about Maine’s refusal to ban transgender athletes from girls and women’s sports. The evening before, Trump said a meeting of the Republican Governor Association that he would do it Hold back federal financing from Maine if the state continued to ignore its command.
“We see each other in court,” said Mills during the event of the White House event and reacted to the president’s threat to finance the state.
CIF and MSHSL have announced that they will follow state laws that enable transgender students to compete in sports that corresponds to their gender identity, and Ellison. in an opinion The last week granted Trump’s command violates the Minnesota Human Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on gender identity.
Trump’s executive regulation cannot replace state law, wrote Ellison because “the strength and the effect of the law” is missing. Executive regulations that the Federal Government instruct to enforce laws are no laws on and in itself.
Among other things, Maine, California and Minnesota have investigations of investigations that have been started by the educational department, whether they have violated titles IX – the Bundeschaftlechtgesetz against gender discrimination by not complying with Trump’s command. Officials for each state did not give back a request for comment.
In a press release on Tuesday, Bondi said the Ministry of Justice “do not tolerate state officials who ignore the federal law”.
“We will use any legal option that is necessary to ensure compliance with the federal government and President Trump to protect women’s sports,” she said.
Bondi wrote in the letters that it does not matter because title IX is a federal law, it is not a matter of whether “state law allows or even state sporting associations or similar companies demand that girls compete against boys at sports and sporting events. If conflicts of the federal and state governments are obliged to comply with the federal law. ”
Bondi’s letters as with other writings of the White House of the Trump of the White House do not apply the word transgender, although they talk directly about trans -individuals.
If it is determined that one of the states has violated IX titles, Bondi wrote in the letters: “The Ministry of Justice is willing to take all suitable measures to enforce the federal government.”
“I hope it doesn’t get there,” she wrote. “The Ministry of Justice does not want to sue state or state companies or end their federal funds. We just want states and state companies to comply with the law. The federal law requires that girls give the same opportunities to participate in sports and sporting events by ensuring that girls only have to compete with other girls, not with boys. ”
