U.S. President Donald Trump's administration agreed on Friday to refrain from unilaterally cutting off Maine's access to federal funding used to feed school children, ending one of several legal fights stemming from the state's refusal to comply with his demands to ban transgender athletes from girls' sports teams.

The state’s attorney general said the federal dollars paid for food for schoolchildren and other essential services.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) clashed with Trump over the issue of transgender athletes during a White House event in February.

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The governing bodies for soccer in England and Scotland say they will ban transgender women from playing on women’s teams following a U.K.

Transgender women will no longer be allowed to compete in women’s soccer in England after a policy change prompted by a UK Supreme Court ruling on the matter, the FA said on Thursday.

President Trump did a grunting impression of a female weightlifter as he criticized the participation of transgender women in sports.

After talking up his first 100 days in office and bashing news media, Trump offered graduates pieces of advice drawn from his life and career, including to "think of yourself as a winner," "be an original" and "never,