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University of Maine System falls in line with Trump's prohibition on men in women's sports

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Feb. 22 that it had "initiated a compliance review of the University of Maine following the State of Maine's blatant disregard for President Trump's Executive Order 14201, Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports."

Weeks later, the University of Maine System, which consists of seven universities and a law school, revealed that its funding from the USDA has been temporarily paused pending a review of its compliance with Title IX and Title IV, which ban sex and race-based discrimination.

The USDA announced Wednesday that the UMS has fallen in line with President Donald Trump's directive to keep men out of women's sports but coupled the news of restored funding with a threat: "Any false claim by the UMaine can, and will, result in onerous and even potentially criminal financial liability."

'The choice for the rest of Maine is simple.'

Compliance apparently meant the UMS confirming to the Trump administration that it does not permit male athletes to identify as females in order to establish individual eligibility for National Collegiate Athletic Association-sanctioned women's sports; that it does not permit men to participate in individual or team contact sports with women; and that it complies with NCAA regulations, specifically the prohibition on male student athletes participating in NCAA-sanctioned women's sports.

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