U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Wednesday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against the state of Maine after it refused several requests to comply with President Donald Trump’s directive banning males from competing in female sports. In a joint press conference with Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, Bondi said the action was a last resort by the administration after months of warning the state and threatening federal funding.

The state of Maine filed a lawsuit Monday against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins for revoking funding after the state refused to comply with the Trump administration’s directive banning men from competing in women’s sports. The lawsuit claims the USDA’s revocation of funding is “blatantly unlawful” and violates the Administrative Procedure Act for “freezing federal funds allocated to Maine to feed schoolchildren.” Funding from the USDA was cut on April 2 after Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills got into a public spat with President Donald Trump during which the governor declined to comply with Trump’s ban on men in women’s sports.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Monday temporarily paused funding to the entire University of Maine System (UMS) due to the state’s Democratic Gov. Janet Mills refusing to comply with President Donald Trump’s order banning men from competing in women’s sports. Trump and Mills had a fiery exchange at the White House in February in which the president called the governor out for pledging not to comply with the order to protect women’s sports, which Mills responded by threatening legal action against the president. The USDA opened an investigation into Maine’s department of education the following day to review UMS’s compliance with Title IX, which protects women from discrimination.

A commonsense issue that Americans overwhelmingly support is expected to face Democratic resistance in the Senate. Senators will vote to invoke cloture on Republican Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act Monday evening. Every GOP senator is expected to vote to advance the bill, but the legislation faces uncertain prospects due to the upper chamber’s 60-vote legislative threshold and expected opposition from Senate Democrats.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday officially signed an executive order that bans biological males from competing in women's and girl's sports.

A Virginia State Senate subcommittee on Thursday shelved legislation that would have prohibited biological men who identify as transgender women from competing on sports teams with biological women, despite the bill receiving support from Governor Glenn Youngkin, Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears, Attorney General Jason Miyares, and former college athlete Riley Gaines. Senate Bill 749 by State Senator Tammy Brankley Mulchi (R-Clarksville) would have required schools to clearly state whether sports teams are for men, women, or are coed, and also required student athletes to obtain a signed document from a physician stating they seek to compete on a team that corresponds to their biological gender. The bill would have also allowed students who suffered from a school's failure to adhere to the law to sue for damages.

Georgia Lieutenant Governor Burt Jones on Monday announced the Fair and Safe Athletic Opportunities Act, which his office said in a press release, "would ban biological males from participating in women's sports across Georgia." The lieutenant governor's office explained the legislation, which is also known as Senate Bill 1, was drafted based upon the findings by the Senate Special Committee on the Protection of Women's Sports that Jones introduced last year. It revealed that SB 1 was formally introduced Monday by State Senator Greg Dolezal (R-Forsyth).

President Joe Biden’s attempt to rewrite Title IX to include gender identity was officially blocked by a federal court Thursday. The rule rewrite would have allowed biological males to compete in women’s sports and use women’s spaces. Challengers to the rule hailed the court’s decision, with Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti declaring the ruling to be a “massive win.”

The Supreme Court’s forthcoming ruling on state child sex change bans could impact a range of issues related to gender identity, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The day before the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in a case that could decide the availability of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgical removal of healthy breasts and genitals for gender-confused minors, the Minnesota Supreme Court heard arguments on another transgender issue: eligibility rules in private athletic competition. The hypotheticals from the justices got creative, with one speculating that bowling leagues could bar Catholics from competition if the high court upheld USA Powerlifting's ban on athletes in women's competition who have completed male puberty.