Could President Trump’s battle against Maine over transgender athletes be coming soon to Massachusetts? Attorney General Pam Bondi sued Maine for Title IX violations and made clear on Wednesday that she will be targeting other states for allowing formerly male trans athletes to compete against girls and women in sports, saying California and Minnesota “are the top two that should be on notice.” The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association also has a rule prohibiting discrimination against transgender athletes, and two widely publicized incidents of girls getting hurt by transgender athletes have caught the administration’s attention. “Let today serve as warning to all states,” Maine Gov. Janet Mills said in a statement. “Maine might be among the first to draw the ire of the federal government in this way, but we will not be the last.” Bondi – flanked by female athletes – launched a lawsuit against Maine on Wednesday for openly flaunting Trump’s order against transgender participation in girls’ sports, outlining plans to strip the state of school funding and giving titles won by transgender athletes to female competitors. The lawsuit cites a case where a transgender athlete won a pole vaulting competition at the track and field state championships. “I don’t care if it’s one, I don’t care if it’s two, I don’t care if it’s 100,” Bondi said. It was the boldest move yet by the Trump administration to escalate the fight against trans athletes’ participation in girls’ sports – an issue that helped contribute to Trump’s election victory last year. “This has been a huge issue for him,” Bondi said at a press conference. “Pretty simple, girls play in girls sports, boys play in boys sports. Women play in women’s sports, men play in men’s sports.” The lawsuit comes after Mills, a Democrat, confronted the president a few months ago in public during a governors’ meeting at the White House.. “We’ll see you in court,” Mills said, prompting Trump to retort that he was confident of a legal victory against Maine. While liberal Massachusetts may not yet be in Bondi’s cross hairs, that day could come sooner than later, as Mills made clear in her statement. The weak and insular MIAA has refused to take action to support Trump’s executive order, instead keeping a rule that could keep transgender athletes competing against women and girls. That rule could also risk Massachusetts losing millions of dollars in funding for education programs down the line. A few weeks ago, the Department of Education announced it was cutting off education funds from Maine for violating the Title IX laws prohibiting discrimination against women, while the Department of Agriculture froze school lunch funding. The Justice Department also pulled more than $1.5 billion in funding from Maine’s Department of Corrections. National polling has consistently shown that a majority of Americans do not support allowing formerly male transgender athletes to compete in women’s and girls’ sports. Only 19% of Americans back the notion of transgender women competing against women and girls in college, the professional ranks and the Olympics. Two thirds oppose the idea.