More Maine Schools Ban Transgender Athletes From Girls Sports, Defying Dem Leadership And Siding With Trump

Another Maine schoolhouse district has taken matters into its ain hands successful nan state's conflict complete transgender athletes successful girls sports. 

On Tuesday, nan committee of board for Maine's Region School Unit (RSU) No. 24 voted 7-1 to rescind a argumentation that allows trans athletes to compete successful girls sports. 

The rescinded policy, Policy JB, stated that "students shall beryllium capable to participate successful accordance pinch nan gender personality asserted astatine school."

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RSU No. 24 Superintendent Michael Eastman confirmed to Fox News Digital that nan territory and its schools will extremity pursuing nan argumentation immediately. 

"At its gathering past night, aft respectful deliberation, nan RSU No. 24 Board of Directors voted 7-1 (one head was absent) to rescind Policy JB — Transgender and Gender-Expansive Students," Eastman said. "This alteration will return spot immediately. We admit nan turnout past evening and convey those residents who addressed nan committee pinch their thoughts regarding nan policy."

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RSU No. 24 operates 5 nationalist schools successful Sullivan, Maine. Hancock county, wherever Sullivan is located, voted successful favour of Donald Trump successful November's predetermination by a separator of 52.9% to 45.3%. 

Eastman's territory is not nan first to amend a gender eligibility argumentation successful caller weeks. 

The MSAD No. 70 School Board voted unanimously successful mid-April to comply pinch Title IX, "recognizing only 2 sexes — biologic antheral and biologic female — and that each backstage spaces beryllium separated by biologic sex."

MSAD No. 70 Superintendent Tyler Putnam told Fox News Digital that, owed to this vote, he is now directed to amend nan district's policies to forestall trans athletes from competing successful girls sports. 

"The mobility directs maine to rewrite our policies to adhere to nan motion," Putnam said. "It is my interpretation that the school committee will beryllium looking to o.k. policies that align biologic activity to their specific athletic teams too, i.e. biologic males will beryllium playing pinch only other biological males and nan aforesaid for biologic females. These policies will request to beryllium approved by nan argumentation committee and nan committee erstwhile rewritten."

Maine is being sued by nan Department of Justice for failing to travel to an statement to comply pinch Trump's "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" executive order. Maine has loosely allowed trans athletes to compete pinch girls since 2005, erstwhile nan Maine Human Rights Act prohibited favoritism based connected gender identity. 

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The Maine Principals' Association (MPA) updated its policies successful 2024 to explicitly let transgender students to compete connected teams matching their gender identity. 

The state, peculiarly its Democratic activity led by Gov. Janet Mills, is doubling down to defy Trump and protect its trans athletes' authorities to compete against girls and stock girls locker rooms. 

Many residents, and now schoolhouse districts, person taken steps to reason Mills. There person been aggregate protests crossed nan state, including 2 astatine nan authorities Capitol successful August, by activists looking to protect girls from trans competitors. 

Attention to nan rumor was magnified this past week aft a trans jock won aggregate events astatine a girls way meet. 

A trans-identifying jock who competed for North Yarmouth Academy successful Yarmouth, Maine, astatine nan Poland-NYA-Yarmouth-Seacoast meet, won nan 1600-meter pinch a clip of 5:57.27, blowing distant nan second-place runner who vanished pinch a clip of 6:16.32. In nan 800-meter, nan trans jock had a person first-place decorativeness pinch a clip of 2:43.31, conscionable astir a 2nd amended than nan second-place finisher pinch a clip of 2:44.87.  

In October 2023, Fox News Digital reported that this jock was transgender.

A survey by nan American Parents Coalition recovered that retired of astir 600 registered Maine voters, 63% said that schoolhouse sports information should beryllium based connected biologic sex, and 66% agreed it is "only adjacent to restrict women’s sports to biologic women."

The canvass besides recovered that 60% of residents would support a ballot measurement limiting participation in women’s and girls sports to biological females. This included 64% of independents and 66% of parents pinch kids nether property 18.

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