The U.S. Department of Education issued a final warning to the state of Maine, telling it to agree to protect female sports or suffer cuts in federal funding.
On March 19, the federal department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) sent a letter notifying the Maine Department of Education (MDOE) that its policies and practices violate Title IX rules by allowing males to partake in female sporting events.
Title IX prohibits discrimination based on sex in any education program or activity that receives federal funding.
The OCR proposed a resolution agreement on March 19 detailing corrective actions, including banning males from female sports. However, “MDOE has taken no action to protect women and girls from discrimination in sports or intimate spaces,” the federal agency said in a March 31 statement….