Attorney General Pam Bondi is warning California, Maine and Minnesota to comply with the federal antidiscrimination laws that require them to keep boys out of women’s sports or face legal action, Fox News has learned.

The Education Department has also launched investigations into state transgender policies, a key step in the process of pulling federal funding from an educational institution, which has not been done in decades.

The U.S. Justice Department says it "stands ready to sue" Minnesota and two other states that are defying President Trump's executive order earlier this month that bans transgender girls and women from competing in sports consistent with their gender identity.

Maine should be on notice,' Pam Bondi said in a letter to the governor over compliance with President Donald Trump's legally questionable executive order on transgender students competing in school sports.

In a Tuesday letter to Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Minnesota State High School League Executive Director Erich Martens, Bondi said the state should be “on notice” that the U.S.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in a letter that she "hopes it does not come to this" amid a debate over allowing transgender athletes in girls' and women's sports.

US Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter Tuesday to the three states saying the Justice Department will cut federal funding to them if they continue to allow transgender athletes to play on

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is warning Minnesota and two other states to comply with President Donald Trump's transgender sports rule.