This is over repeated refusal from the state's leaders to follow President Donald Trump’s administration's demands to stop allowing men to compete in women's sports.
Last Friday’s announcement is among the latest developments in the continued hostility between Trump and Maine Gov. Janet Mills (shown above). 
AFN talked with Nick Adolphsen, the executive director at the Maine Christian Civic League.
"My initial thought is, boy, it's a strange day when you've got to go to Washington, DC, to be heard, right? Usually, your voice gets lost in the bureaucracy and the politics, but that's where we're at in Maine."
Trump and Mills first sparred at a governors’ event at the White House in February.
Trump called out Mills then for her state’s policies that allow biological males to compete in girls’ and women’s sports.
Trump said he would cut off federal funding for Maine schools, and his administration has followed through.
Mills said her state would sue the administration. It has not done so individually but has joined a lawsuit with 19 other states seeking to reverse Department of Education layoffs.
Maine citizens are not being heard because Mills and Attorney Gen. Aaron Frey are pushing a radical agenda, Adolphsen said.
“They're doubling down on this, making sure boys can play in girls' sports. It’s President Trump and it's his White House that's standing up for Maine's young women and just the basic fairness that Title IX was built on."
Watching boys presenting themselves as females take championship opportunities from girls seems like some sort of alternate reality, Adolphsen said.
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“I like to equate to the story of ‘The Emperor Has No Clothes.’ The emperor's been walking around without his clothes, and it's taken the kids to stand up and say, 'hey, hey guys? This isn't right. This isn't how it's supposed to be,’ and that's what they're doing. Meanwhile, I've got a governor here and A.G. Frey, who are only listening to their allies that are on the far left, and they're brushing aside the youth in this debate, brushing aside the adults, and are not listening to what most of us would consider just common sense, normal, good policy, good practice."
Ultimately, the Trump administration will win out, Adolphsen predicts.
“I suspect we'll spend a little time in the courts. I also suspect we're talking about a president who is not going to back down to the president of China. I don't think he's about to back down to the governor of the state of Maine. So, it might take a minute, but I think ultimately, we will see biological males no longer participating in girls' sports."
