#BreakingNews - Federal #DHHS refers #Maine to #JusticeDepartment for enforcement of ‘noncompliance with #TitleIX’

The office announced the referral in a post on social media shortly after 5 p.m.

by Daniel Kool, March 28, 2025, 5:49pm

"The federal Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights referred Maine to the Justice Department for enforcement of what it alleges are Title IX violations stemming from allowing transgender women to compete in women’s sports.

"The office announced the referral in a post on social media shortly after 5 p.m.
'HHS will continue to protect women’s sports and keep the promises of Title IX for America’s women and girls,' the office said.

"The announcement comes a day after Maine officials refused to sign a proposed agreement to stop allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls’ high school sports by a Thursday deadline.

"Maine officials refuse to sign Trump agreement on transgender athletes
A spokesperson for Attorney General Aaron Frey’s office declined to comment Friday evening.

"Spokespeople for Gov. Janet Mills did not immediately return a request for comment. The Justice Department did not immediately return questions about its next steps and potential enforcement actions submitted through its media portal."

Original article:
https://www.pressherald.com/2025/03/28/federal-dhhs-refers-maine-to-justice-for-enforcement-over-noncompliance-with-title-ix/

Archived version:
https://archive.md/6jnDs
#MaineResists #ProtectTransKids #TransgenderAthletes #Fascism #Resistance #EducationFunds #USPol #MainePol #TrumpIsABully #TransRightsAreHumanRights

“David Geier is NOT a vaccine skeptic. Stop calling him that.
Letting him head an “investigation” into vaccines and autism will legitimize his decades of lies and illegal medical treatments that harmed children.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/immunologic/p/david-geier-is-not-a-vaccine-skeptic

#RFK Jr. Kills Policy on Public Comment for #Health #Regulations

#DHHS is reversing over 50 year policy of soliciting public comment before it issues regulations affecting government benefits and grants, including NIH funding.

#Trump2.0 #BlackMastodon #YBIYBI

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/28/rfk-kills-public-comment-health-policy

I have to celebrate a small win for my sensory sensitive disabled self.

It’s taken me four years but I believe I have finally won the battle with Concord Hospital over the abusive level of the hold music the call center uses.

It would give me #PEM every time I had to call my doctor. And if I send a message through the portal it takes three days for them to get back to me so that’s not always practical.

They didn’t care when I complained that it hurt because of #MECFS, they didn’t care when I asked them how #autistic people who have more sensory issues than I do even call their doctor, they didn’t care when I told them that everyone on their staff in the clinical locations hates the call center as much as I do, but they did care when I accused them of trying to trigger #migraines so that they can admit me and bill #Medicare $25,000.

But you know what actually did it? I found out there was a civil rights division at Concord Hospital and I complained to them instead of patient relations. When I started talking about the rehabilitation act of 1974 (or 1973 idk) patient relations didn’t care, but the civil rights department did.

And I’m still dying to know who owns that call center because it’s the same call center used by NH #DHHS if you have to call the welfare office. So I suspect it’s someone related to Chris Sununu and they’re locked into some awful contract. The food stamp workers hate the call center too. I’ve been talking to people about this for four years.
I finally won. It’s been a good week for me here in New Hampshire.

>>Late Monday night, Kelley expanded the pause on the NIH cost-cutting nationwide, writing the NIH and the Department of Health and Human Services and “their officers, employees, servants, agents, appointees, and successors are hereby enjoined from taking any steps to implement, apply, or enforce” the NIH cost-cutting “in any form with respect to institutions nationwide until further order is issued by this Court.”<< #NIH #DHHS #Science
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/11/politics/trump-administration-public-health-funding/index.html

“The Dr. Who Fooled the World”: Author Slams RFK’s Embrace of Disgraced Anti-Vaxxer Andrew Wakefield
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/31/andrew_wakefield_vaccine

* author/investigative journalist Brian Deer
* debunked disgraced ex-doctor Andrew Wakefield’s fraudulent claims vaccines linked to autism
* Wakefield & Trump2 nom. Sec. Health & Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. major leaders of anti-vaccine movement
* “They basically run this movement together”

#AndrewWakefield #RFKjr #antivax
#Trump2 #fascism #DHHS #HHS

Does anyone else feel like they're suffocating when listening to RFK Jr. speak?

#Kennedy #RFK #Confirmation #DHHS # Health #Congress

"As federal lawmakers prepare to decide [tomoorow 29 January] whether #AntiVaccine advocate #RobertFKennedyJr should be the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services #DHHS, pediatricians from around the country are making emotional pleas to protect and support lifesaving immunizations."

#Vaccines prevent illness and save lives.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/01/dead-babies-critically-ill-kids-pediatricians-make-moving-plea-for-vaccines/