On Wednesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the Justice Department is suing Maine for violations of Title IX because it refuses to protect the competitive integrity of women’s sports, but CNN’s chief legal affairs correspondent Paula Reid didn’t understand what the big deal was. According to her, the state only has two transgender high school athletes that compete in women’s competitions, but she failed to mention that one of them won a state indoor pole vaulting championship back in February.
Co-host Pamela Brown set the table, “All right, let’s go live now to CNN chief legal affairs correspondent Paula Reid. Paula, how do we expect Maine to respond to this lawsuit?”
Pole vault competitions weren’t the only things that happened in February, as Reid recalled:
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