The chill of an early 'fall' in Maine
It was only in late February that President Trump and Maine’s Democrat Governor Janet Mills had words over his executive order titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” which vowed to stop federal funding to institutions that allow biologically born males to compete against females.
As RedState’s Sister Toldjah reported, Mills appeared defiant when Trump called her out at a National Governors Association working session at the White House:
"Is Maine here? The governor of Maine?" Trump said, before locating Mills seated nearby at a table in the White House State Dining Room. "Are you not going to comply with it?"
Mills replied, "I'm going to comply with state and federal law."
"We are the federal law," Trump responded. "You better do it because you're not going to get any federal funding at all if you don't."
On Monday, Mills found out the president wasn’t kidding around as the U.S. Department of Agriculture froze funding to the University of Maine System, according to school officials....
An email forwarded to the University of Maine that appears to have originated from the USDA’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer directs the Department’s “awarding agencies and staff offices to temporarily no longer issue any payments or authorize any other releases of funding to Columbia University or the University of Maine System.”
The university’s quest to ensure that men can unfairly (and dangerously) continue to compete in women’s athletics might turn out to be very costly....
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Universities are finding out the hard way that Team Trump isn’t playing softball. Case in point: the administration pulled $400 million in funding from Columbia University Friday for their failure to stop the waves of antisemitism and pro-jihadi violence on their campus.
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There are reasons why competitive sports programs are divided between men and women. Even non-contact sports like volleyball are competitively different for men and women. The men serve the ball harder and also slam balls back at the net much harder than most women can respond to. Maine is making a mistake by putting women in danger.
Columbia has so far not explained why it is allowing antisemitism and jihadi violence.
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