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Maine’s Trans Athlete conflict reintroduced this week with residents intervening at the school board meetings.
During a meeting of the school board in the state’s capital Augusta on Wednesday, two women dressed up to protest against state policies that allow biological men to compete in girls ‘sports and use girls’ dressing room.
The stunt came while local parent Nick Blanchard delivered a monologue who condemns the school board to enforce state policies on the issue. Blanchard had spoken earlier at the meeting, but returned to the lecturer at the end of the meeting with the protesting women behind him to perform the action.
“I’m about to show you how uncomfortable it is for young girls,” Blanchard declared to the board members. “You feel uncomfortable? Because that’s what these young girls want when a boy enters their dressing room and starts to remain unchanged in front of them. Yes, you feel uncomfortable, right? That’s what these young girls want every time a young boy changes in front of them!”
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Two women dressed at a school board meeting in Augusta, Maine to protest trans athletes in girls’ sports. (Augusta schools)
The two women continued to remove clothes as Blanchard’s speech continued.
“This is the Capital of Main’s capital! We should be an example of the rest of the state! You know what example in guys sets? That we are not interested in the young girls in the rest of the state!” he added.
A similar stunt took place at a school board meeting in California when the local women’s rights activist Beth Bourne dressed during a speech in a Davis joint overall School Board Meeting on September 18th. Bourne also protested policies that allow men in girls’ changing rooms.
Both California and Main’s state education agencies are sued by the US Ministry of Justice for their policy that allows trans athletes in girls’ sports.
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Several individual school districts in both states have adopted their own decisions to support President Donald Trump’s “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order, while democratic leadership in these states has refused to comply.
Elswhere in Maine, RSU 24 School Board adopted such a change this past week.
Republican Gubernatorial candidate David Jones spoke at the meeting in support of the decision.
“I don’t mind people who feel different about what they are, but in the eye of my mind, and according to God there is a man and a woman, not two different types of men, not two different types of women. Biology doesn’t lie,” Jones said.
“Let’s not go backwards. Let’s do what we need to do to protect every single girl in the state of Maine, and make sure they are not injured in any way form or form.”
Maine has solved the allowed trans athletes to compete with girls since 2005, when Maine Human Rights Act prohibited discrimination based on gender identity.
Maine Principals’ Association (MPA) updated her policies in 2024 to explicitly allow transking students to compete for teams that match their gender identity.
The state, especially its democratic leadership, led by head of government Janet Mills, doubles to threaten Trump and protect its trans athletes ‘rights to compete against girls and share girls’ dressing room.
Many residents and now school districts have taken steps to oppose Mills. There have been several protests throughout the state, including two at the State Capitol in August, by activists who want to protect girls from trans -competitors.
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.
