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(SRN NEWS) – A second person has been arrested in connection with a Texas midwife who is accused of providing illegal abortions at three clinics around the Houston area.  Twenty-nine-year-old Jose Manuel Cendan is a medical assistant who is charged with performing an abortion and practicing without a medical license at one of Maria Margarita Rojas’ (ROH-hass’) clinics.  Rojas has also been charged with providing an illegal abortion and practicing medicine without a license, which are second- and third-degree felonies.  She is accused of operating three illegal clinics near Houston. 

Maine’s education office is being ordered to ban males from female sports or face federal prosecution.  The Trump administration says an investigation has concluded that Maine’s education office violated Title Nine by allowing boys to compete on girls’ sports teams and use girls’ facilities in the schools.  Maine has 10 days to comply with a list of demands or face Justice Department prosecution.  The Education Department has also launched transgender investigations at San Jose State University, along with a high school sports league in Massachusetts. 

A judge has ordered the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer two male inmates, who are living as women, back to women’s prisons.  They had been sent to men’s facilities in the wake of President Trump’s executive order banning promotion of transgenderism throughout the federal government.  U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth also ruled that taxpayers must continue to provide the two men with hormone therapy to help them live as women.  The judge previously blocked the transfer of a dozen other male inmates back to men’s prisons. 

The Trump administration has suspended approximately 175 million dollars in federal funding for the University of Pennsylvania over a male who was allowed to join the women’s swim team.  The Ivy League university has been facing an Education Department investigation focusing on its swimming program. That inquiry was announced last month immediately after President Trump signed an executive order intended to ban males from competing in girls and women’s sports.  Investigations of several other schools are on-going.