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The Maine Senate voted against Bill LD 1134, which would have kept biologically male trans athletes out of girls’ sports on Thursday.
The rejection comes in the midst of the ongoing opposition from the state’s democratic leadership against President Donald Trump’s “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” Executive Order, dating from February.
The US Department of Justice has launched a lawsuit against the state of refusing to sign an agreement to only keep girls’ sports for women. A federal judge put on a trial on Tuesday, April 1, 2026 for this trial.
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The prominent Maine -Republican legislator Laurel Libby, who has emerged as a central figure in the state’s struggle on the issue, criticized the majority of the Democrat for not adopting the bill in a post on X Friday.
“It is clear that the will of biological reality and Maine -people have no bearing on the decisions made in the Maine legislation when the Democrat’s majority just voted to give biological men the opportunity to continue to dominate the girls ‘sports and invade girls’ rooms,” Libby wrote.
Athletes and women’s rights activists had lobbying for the state to adopt bills banning trans athletes from girls’ sports for months.
Back in early May, several girls athletes marched in August to testify to state laws in support of three bills on the issue, including LD114 and similar bills LD 868 and LD 233.
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“[Democrats] Definitely asked much less questions to the people they did not agree with than the people they agreed with, and you could tell you that they did not feel compassionate, “Presque Isle Student Track -Athlet Lucy Cheney previously told Pakinomist Digital.” They became emotional right when [pro-trans speakers] Shared, and it looked like they really used to them and they wanted to support them, and it didn’t feel as much as they wanted to hear our side. ”
Cheney’s teammate Carrlyn Buck said that when the Democrats came to them with questions, they seemed “hostile.”
“They just seemed more hostile to our testimonies when they asked questions,” Buck said. “It felt as if many questions were plagued.”
DOJ has accused the state “open and defiant whistling federal law on discrimination by enforcing policies that require girls to compete against boys in athletic competitions who are exclusively appointed for girls,” according to a complaint obtained by Pakinomist Digital.
Governor Janet Mills, Maine Department of Education and Maine Principals ‘Association has held on to support to continue to enable trans -cluttering in girls’ sports throughout the state with reference to Maine Human Rights ACT as a precedent to determine gender eligibility.
Meanwhile, two Maine school districts have already taken the cases in their own hands, as MSAD # 70 and RSU # 24 each have moved to change their own policies to keep trans athletes out of girls’ sports.
ONE Examination of The coalition of the American parents found that out of approx. 600 registered Maine voters said 63% that school sports participation should be based on biological sex, and 66% agreed that it is “only fair to limit women’s sports to biological women.”
The survey also found that 60% of residents would support a ballot limiting participation in Women’s and girls’ sports to Biological Women. This included 64% of the independent and 66% of parents with children under the age of 18.
But so far, the governor has remained firm in opposing Trump on the issue, even at the expense of taxpayer-funded legal fees.
“I am happy to go to court and litigation the questions raised in this law complaint,” Mills told journalists in April.
