Maine governor 'should want to protect women and women's sports,' Sen Marsha Blackburn says

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., reacted to Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ spat with President Donald Trump implicit the contented of transgender inclusion successful women’s sports.

Trump signed the "No Men successful Women’s Sports" enforcement bid earlier this period to guarantee that nary transgender athletes vie against women oregon girls successful sports. Some states, similar Maine, person bucked the enforcement order.

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It each led to a nationalist dustup betwixt Mills and Trump connected Friday. Trump threatened to withhold national backing if the authorities continued to let trans athletes successful women’s sports. Mills retorted, "We’ll spot you successful court." 

Blackburn talked astir Maine’s determination successful an interrogation connected "Fox News Live" with anchor Mike Emanuel.

"This is 1 of those defining issues betwixt the near and the right," she said. "We afloat judge that President Trump is close connected this. It is the argumentation of the national authorities that we volition enactment Title IX, arsenic there, for women and women's sports, and we volition not enactment men, biologic men successful women sports. and arsenic President Trump said that this is the national presumption and truthful the politician should beryllium enforcing that. 

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"She should privation to support women and women's sports. It is unbelievable that she would take to not bash that."

The enforcement manager of the superior governing assemblage for precocious schoolhouse sports successful the authorities of Maine said diversion teams volition proceed to find eligibility based connected a student's stated sex identity, contempt the president's enforcement bid seeking to support "men retired of women's sports."

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat who serves arsenic the president of the National Governors Association, talked astir Mills and Trump’s spat.

"As governors, we person our anterior inaugural that we proceed to enactment connected is to disagree better," Polis said.

"We ever anticipation that radical tin disagree successful a mode that elevates the sermon and tries to travel to a communal solution around... what the contented is. I don't deliberation that that disagreement is needfully a exemplary of that," helium continued, adding that immoderate governors whitethorn not person known the origins of the fiery speech astatine the time.

Fox News’ Charlie Creitz and Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.

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