Maine women undress at school board meeting to protest trans athletes

The trans athlete battle in Maine flared up once more this week as residents took motion at college board conferences.

At a faculty board assembly in Augusta, the state capital, two girls stripped bare Wednesday to protest the state’s coverage that enables organic males to take part in ladies’ sports activities and use ladies’ locker rooms.

The stunt got here as native father or mother Nick Blanchard delivered a monologue condemning the college board for implementing state coverage on the matter. Blanchard had spoken earlier on the assembly, however returned to the lectern on the finish of the assembly with the protesting girls behind him to do the deed.

“I am about to point out you the way uncomfortable it’s for younger ladies,” Blanchard advised the board members. “Do you’re feeling uncomfortable? As a result of that is how these younger ladies really feel when a boy walks into their dressing room and invariably begins standing in entrance of them. Yeah, you’re feeling uncomfortable, proper? That is how these younger ladies really feel each time a younger boy adjustments in entrance of them.”

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Two girls strip bare throughout a faculty board assembly in Augusta, Maine, to protest trans athletes in ladies’ sports activities. (Augusta Faculties)

The 2 girls continued to take away clothes as Blanchard’s speech continued.

“That is the capital of Maine. We ought to be an instance to the remainder of the state. You already know what instance you are setting? That we do not care in regards to the younger ladies in the remainder of the state,” he added.

An identical stunt befell at a faculty board assembly in California, when native girls’s rights activist Beth Bourne stripped bare throughout a speech at a Davis Joint Unified faculty. School board meeting September 18. Bourne additionally protested the coverage permitting males in ladies’ locker rooms.

The academic establishments of each California and Maine are being sued by the U.S. Division of Justice over their insurance policies permitting trans athletes in ladies’ sports activities.

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A number of particular person faculty districts in each states have handed their very own resolutions supporting enforcement of President Donald Trump’s govt order to maintain males out of ladies’s sports activities, whereas Democratic leaders in these states have refused to conform.

Elsewhere in Maine, the RSU 24 faculty board handed such an modification this previous week.

Republican gubernatorial candidate David Jones spoke on the rally in assist of the decision.

“I’ve nothing in opposition to individuals who suppose in another way, however in my thoughts, and in response to God, there may be one man and one girl, not two completely different sorts of males, not two completely different varieties of ladies. Biology does not lie,” Jones mentioned.

‘Do not allow us to go backwards. Let’s do what we have to do to guard each woman within the state of Maine and ensure they do not get damage in any means.”

Maine has loosely allowed trans athletes to compete with ladies since 2005, when the Maine Human Rights Act banned discrimination primarily based on gender identification.

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The Maine Principals’ Affiliation (MPA) up to date its coverage in 2024 to explicitly permit transgender college students to compete on groups that match their gender identification.

The state, and particularly its Democratic management led by Governor Janet Mills, is doing its utmost to defy Trump and shield the rights of its trans athletes to compete in opposition to ladies and share ladies’ locker rooms.

Many residents, and now faculty districts, have taken steps to oppose Mills. There have been a number of protests within the state, together with two on the Capitol in August, by activists searching for to guard ladies from transgender rivals.

A survey the American Dad and mom Coalition discovered that of roughly 600 registered voters in Maine, 63% mentioned participation in class sports activities ought to be primarily based on organic intercourse, and 66% agreed that it’s “solely truthful to restrict girls’s sports activities to organic girls.”

The ballot additionally discovered that 60% of residents would assist a poll measure that limits participation in girls’s and ladies’ sports activities organic females. This included 64% of self-employed individuals and 66% of fogeys with youngsters underneath the age of 18.

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