The administration concluded last month that Maine had violated federal law by allowing transgender athletes to play on girls’ or women’s teams.

(Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Agriculture has frozen funds to some Maine educational programs over the state's refusal to ban transgender women from sports, said a press release from Secretary Brooke Rollins.

Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), a prominent Senate Republican moderate, says President Trump is right to scrutinize her state’s law that “allows biological males to play in girls’