(The Lion) — President Donald Trump is threatening to withhold federal funding from Maine amid reports that a transgender-identifying athlete won two state titles at a girls’ indoor track and field state championship earlier this week.

Trump brought the issue up during a speech before the Republican Governors Association on Thursday, first asking whether anyone present was from Maine.

“So we’re not going to give them any federal funding – none whatsoever – until they clean that up,” Trump told the room.

Trump signed an executive order last month barring males from women’s sports. His administration plans to withhold federal education funding from states and school districts that fail to comply.

Katie Spencer, a junior at Greely High School in Cumberland, near Portland, won two Maine Principals’ Association Class B girls’ indoor track state titles last week, one in pole vault (10 feet, 6 inches), and the other a team state championship.

Spencer’s pole vault victory earned the school 10 points, propelling Greely to a one-point victory over Freeport High School, which earned 71 team points.

Spencer wasn’t the only transgender-identifying athlete with a strong performance in a Maine girls’ sport this week.

Soren Stark-Chessa, a junior at Maine Coast Waldorf, a private school in Freeport, near Portland, had two third-place finishes in the MPA Class C girls’ Nordic skiing state championship meet on Tuesday. Stark-Chessa finished third in the girls’ freestyle and pursuit races; the skier also took third in the same events at the state championship meet last year.

Stark-Chessa is also a girls’ outdoor track and field state champ, winning the 800-meter event at the Class C state title meet in June.