A Democrat congressman who represents himself as a moderate came out Tuesday in defense of so-called “trans kids” after Maine’s governor told President Donald Trump she would defy the administration’s ban on men in women’s sports.
“It’s wrong for the president to use trans kids as a pretext to hold funding that benefits every student in Maine hostage,” Congressman Jared Golden (ME) in a Substack post published on Tuesday. “And I will do everything I can in Congress to ensure Maine gets its fair share of federal education funds.”
Golden’s statement seems to be an attempt to strike a balance on the issue of men in women’s sports, which most Americans do not support. He argues that while “trans kids deserve respect and dignity,” he does not think that the state should have overturned “a half-century of Title IX precedent,” nor does he think Maine should have required “school districts to open girls sports programs to natal males at the early stages of transition and those who may not be undergoing medical transition at all.”
The congressman suggests that Maine’s policy “may not stand up in court.”
“Perhaps a return to its previous policy or consideration of another is in order — not in deference to the president’s threat to withhold federal funds, but to biological reality,” he adds.
His remarks come after President Donald Trump challenged Maine Governor Janet Mills for refusing to follow the law on males in girls’ sports as he delivered remarks at the Governors Working Session.
“You better do it,” he told her. “Because you’re not going to get any federal funding at all if you don’t. And by the way, your population, even though it is somewhat liberal — although I did very well there — your population doesn’t want men playing in women’s sports. You better comply because otherwise you’re not getting any federal funding.”
“We’ll see you in court,” the governor can be heard saying, to which Trump responded: “Good, I’ll see you in court. I look forward to that, that should be a real easy one. And enjoy your life after governor, because I don’t think you’ll be in elected politics.”
On Thursday, the president said that his administration would withhold federal funding from Maine following the news that a boy who identifies as a girl took first place in girls’ pole vaulting at Maine’s Class B state championship.
“I heard men are still playing in Maine,” Trump said on Thursday. “We’re not gonna give any federal money. They are still saying, ‘We want men to play in women’s sports.’ And I cannot believe they’re doing that.”
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A Democrat congressman who represents himself as a moderate came out Tuesday in defense of so-called “trans kids” after Maine’s governor told President Donald Trump she would defy the administration’s ban on men in women’s sports.
“It’s wrong for the president to use trans kids as a pretext to hold funding that benefits every student in Maine hostage,” Congressman Jared Golden (ME) in a Substack post published on Tuesday. “And I will do everything I can in Congress to ensure Maine gets its fair share of federal education funds.”
Golden’s statement seems to be an attempt to strike a balance on the issue of men in women’s sports, which most Americans do not support. He argues that while “trans kids deserve respect and dignity,” he does not think that the state should have overturned “a half-century of Title IX precedent,” nor does he think Maine should have required “school districts to open girls sports programs to natal males at the early stages of transition and those who may not be undergoing medical transition at all.”
The congressman suggests that Maine’s policy “may not stand up in court.”
“Perhaps a return to its previous policy or consideration of another is in order — not in deference to the president’s threat to withhold federal funds, but to biological reality,” he adds.
His remarks come after President Donald Trump challenged Maine Governor Janet Mills for refusing to follow the law on males in girls’ sports as he delivered remarks at the Governors Working Session.
“You better do it,” he told her. “Because you’re not going to get any federal funding at all if you don’t. And by the way, your population, even though it is somewhat liberal — although I did very well there — your population doesn’t want men playing in women’s sports. You better comply because otherwise you’re not getting any federal funding.”
“We’ll see you in court,” the governor can be heard saying, to which Trump responded: “Good, I’ll see you in court. I look forward to that, that should be a real easy one. And enjoy your life after governor, because I don’t think you’ll be in elected politics.”
On Thursday, the president said that his administration would withhold federal funding from Maine following the news that a boy who identifies as a girl took first place in girls’ pole vaulting at Maine’s Class B state championship.
“I heard men are still playing in Maine,” Trump said on Thursday. “We’re not gonna give any federal money. They are still saying, ‘We want men to play in women’s sports.’ And I cannot believe they’re doing that.”
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