Department of Agriculture halts federal funding for Maine over men in women's sports

The Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Wednesday told Maine that it has frozen federal funding for the state over its failure to comply with an executive order that bans transgender people from competing in women's sports.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning biological men from competing in women's sports in February, after promising that the federal government would only recognize two sexes. The Department of Health and Human Services defines sex as a person's "immutable biological classification."

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told the state that she is freezing funds for administrative and technological functions in schools, which will resume as soon as Maine is in compliance with Title IX, according to the Daily Wire.

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