Sen. Marsha BlackburnR-tenn., Responded to Maine Janet Mills’ splashing with President Donald Trump for questions of transgender involvements in women’s sports.
Prior to this month, Trump signed the “No Men in Women’s Sport” executive order to ensure that no transgender athletes compete against women or girls in sports. Some countries, like Maine, took away the executive command.
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Maine rules Janet Mills (Camille Fine/USA Today Network)
All this led to a public dust between Mills and Trump on Friday. Trump has threatened to retain federal funding if the state continues to allow trances to athletes in women’s sports. Mills replied, “See you in court.”
Blackburn spoke about Maine’s decision in an interview “Fox News Live” With Sidra Mike Emanuel.
“This is one of those who define the questions of left and right,” she said. “We fully believe that President Trump is right in this. The Federal Government’s policy will support the title of IX, as well as there, for women and women’s sports, and we will not support men, biological men in women’s sports. As President Trump said it was federal position and that the governor should implement it.
Senator Marsha Blackburn speaks at the Republican National Convention on July 15, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Chip Somodeville/Getty Images)
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“You should protect women’s and women’s sports. It’s amazing that she would decide not to do it.”
Executive Director of the Basic Management Body for High School Sports in Maine said that athletic teams would continue to determine the eligibility on the basis of students of this gender identity, despite the president’s executive order he tried to prevent “men from female sports.”
Government of Colorado Jared Polis, Democrat, president of the National Governor Association, Talked about mills and Trump’s splash.
“As governors, we have a previous initiative where we still work to disagree better,” Polis said.
President Donald Trump talks to reporters in the oval office of the White House on February 3, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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“We always hope that people cannot agree in a way that raises the discourse and trying to get a joint solution around … which is a problem. I don’t think this disagreement is a necessary role model,” he continued, adding that some governors may not have known the origin of the fire exchange at the time.
Fox News’ Charlie Creitz and Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.
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