Donald Trump, the president, wasted little time delivering on his promise to address a topic that seemed to resonate across party lines. Trump issued an executive order on the day his second term began that called for “restoring biological truth to the federal government” and signed another on Wednesday titled “ Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports. ”

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Wednesday sued Maine for not complying with the government’s push to ban transgender athletes in girls and women’s sports, escalating a dispute over whether the state is abiding by a federal law that bars discrimination in education based on sex.

A high-stakes legal showdown is erupting between the Trump Administration and the state of Maine after the White House announced on Wednesday it plans to file a federal civil lawsuit accusing Maine’s Department of Education of defying its order to ban transgender individuals from girls’ sports.