REPORT: Maine Education Commish told Schools to Ignore Trump’s Executive Orders on Trans Athletes, Gender Ideology—
School districts in Maine were directed to ignore President Donald Trump’s executive orders regarding protecting women’s sports from transgender athletes and prohibiting gender ideology from being taught in schools.
Emails from Maine Department of Education Commissioner Pender Makin, obtained by Defending Education and provided to Fox News, show that Makin issued a draft memo on January 30, directing schools to “avoid complying with” the president’s “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling” executive order. Makin’s draft memo was sent to Maine Assistant Attorney General Sarah Forster.
ThedraftmemotoForsterwassentdaysafterMakinhademailedthesuperintendentsinthestate,informingthemthat,asTrumpissuedexecutiveorders,therewas“increasingmisinformation,disinformation,andconfusionimpacting”schoolsinthestate.MakinalsowrotethattheMaineDOEhad“advisedschoolstoadheretotheMaineHumanRightsAct”andtheir“localschoolboardpoliciesrelatedtonondiscrimin
