Hiding children’s “gender identity” in parents fights Trump on transgender issues in blue countries
According to the new oversight report, more than 50 school districts in Maine have policies that allow minors to hide their gender identity from their parents.
Parents Defending Education are a grassroots organization that tracks gender ideology in schools across the country, making public record requirements to confirm that at least 57 out of the state’s 192 school districts have 57 policies, excluding parents, and are not sure whether their children identify it as another gender.
The report comes after Donald Trump criticized Democrat Janet Millis last week for refusing to enforce Trump’s executive order “no men in the women’s movement.”
Trump vows to cut off federal funds to Maine, refusing to comply with the order “no men in the women’s movement”
President Trump and the Education Department Building. (Getty Image)
“It’s no surprise when you see the governor of Maine go to the mat to leave men in women’s sports,” PDE spokesman Erika Sanzi told Fox News Digital Friday.
“Now that they’ve realized that, we’ve seen a group of parents in Maine talking about it, and that’s what we want the region to start to back down on these policies, not only because of the Trump administration’s enforcement orders, but because nearly 80% of voters opposed them,” she said.
In one example of the largest Portland public school in the state, the “trans and gender-wide student” district policy requires that if “the student and his parents or legal guardians disagree with the student’s desire for gender identity and gender expression in the school, the school should abide by the student’s gender identity or gender.
“School staff shall abide by the student’s willingness to disclose his or her transgender identity to others, including but not limited to parents or guardians, students, volunteers or other school staff unless the student expressly authorizes disclosure or unless legally required to do so.”
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A student leads a group of protesters in Knoxville, Tennessee, to protest the state’s 2022 ban on trans athletes. (Saul Young /Knoxville News-Sentinel /USA Today)
After Trump signed an executive order in late January, policies like Portland remained, “end the fundamental indoctrination in K-12 education,” which notes that “instructing students to conduct surgical and chemical dismemberment without the consent or intervention of their parents, or private spaces that protect their parents’ rights without the consent or permission of their parents or allowing men to access private spaces designated for women.”
Trump has threatened to cut federal funds in Maine if it continues to violate his orders.
“I heard men are still playing in Maine,” Trump told Trump at a Republican gubernatorial party in Washington last week.
“I hate telling you this, but we won’t give them any federal money. They’re still saying, ‘We want men to play football in women’s sports,’ I can’t believe they’re doing that. … So we won’t give them any federal money until they clean up.”
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President Donald Trump told Maine Gov. Janet Mills that her state needs to comply with executive orders from transgender athletes in school sports at an event held at the White House on February 21, 2025. (Reuters Photos | Pond)
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Trump signed an executive order that bars men from participating in women’s sports earlier this month, which directed federal agencies to review grants, programs and policies that failed to block men’s participation in women’s sports efforts “because of safety, fairness, dignity and truth.” The order strictly enforces Title IX and threatens to revoke federal funding from non-regulatory educational institutions and sports organizations.
After the order, several other blue states said they would not comply with it, including California and Minnesota.
Fox News Digital has contacted the Maine Department of Education for comment.
