The Trump administration is giving Maine until March 27 to reverse its policy allowing transgender student-athletes to participate in girls’ and women’s sports or face the Justice Department.

The Department of Health and Human Services’s (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) said Monday that Maine’s Department of Education, the Maine Principals’ Association and Greely High School, a school of about 700 students along the coast of southern Maine, each violated Title IX by permitting trans athletes to compete on teams that best align with their gender identity rather than their sex at birth.

The office said it offered each entity “an opportunity to voluntarily commit” to resolving the matter through a signed agreement to ban transgender athletes from female sports teams, but the offer would expire in 10 days.

After the March 27 deadline, the state runs the risk of “referral to the U.S. Department of Justice for appropriate action,” the OCR said Monday.

“We hope the Maine Department of Education, the Maine Principals’ Association, and Greely High School will work with us to come to an agreement that restores fairness........

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