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A four -women squad from the athletes of the isle High School athletes helped lead a march in the Maine State Capitol building in Augusta last week.
They went to Spar with the Democrats of the State Legislature on three bills that would prohibit the biological men of girls’ sports, a problem that has sent their state and sports seasons in chaos in 2025.
For three of them, it was their first political concentration, and were Hole Toming Center Haltersion. They had to cross against the pro-transgender counterprotestors outside the building and derogatory liberal legislators inside it.
“It was a bit intimidating to know that they don’t have the same beliefs as us,” said Hailey Himes, a manifestor for the first time, Fox News Digital.
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Athletics athlete of Maine Hailey Himes girls (Courtesy of Hailey HIMES)
But Himes said he realized that he had to join the fight to protect the sports of trans athletes girls when the English teacher assigned an essay on the subject on March 12.
Only one month earlier, Himes and other female athletes witnessed the pole jumping jump that looted its status in a national conflict, when a Translet won the first place in the pole jump of the girls for Grelyly High School in early February.
“I saw this masculine post jumper stand on the podium and we were all as if we were as if we were quite sure that she is not a girl. There is no way to be a girl,” said Himes. “It was really discouraging, especially for girls on the podium not first. That motivated me to fight for them.”
Then, HIMES, along with his athletic teammate, Lucy Cheney and Carrlyn Buck, marched on Augusta, after the leadership of their companion athlete of the isle isle Track Cassidy Carlisle, who already has tasks in Augusta and travel to Tongton.
The group had gained a lot of experience in the treatment of controversies that involve trans athletes, near home for years together. Years earlier, the girls saw their high school shaken by a situation that involved a trans athlete, when a biological man joined the girl tennis team.
“We all listen to friends and none or do we make tennis, so it was just a child or a word or mouth of things,” said Cheney. “At that time, we really could not do anything about it because the administration agreed to let them play, so we really had to accept it, and really nobody else in the really host team to accept it, but they had to do it.”
Athletics athlete of Maine Lucy Cheney girls
The four girls added that it quickly became one of the most discussion themes in the isle High School when it happened for the first time, and continued during the 2022-23 and 2023-24 school years, before the singer of Athlette Trans graduated.
Now, this year, all of them to compete in the shadow of a national conflict between his state and President Donald Trump because the government. Janet Mills and the democratic majority have pledged to maintain trans athletes in girls’ sports.
Mills’s position runs the risk of costing the federal financing of the secondary schools of the state, while leaving Carlisle, Himes, Cheney, Buck and his teammates face the anxiety of competing against trans athletes in the state athletics playoffs.
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When the four teenagers got into the Capitol on Thursday, they face the people who struggled to keep traffic in their sports. The democratic majority of the Maine Legislature has been active and has been aggressively resisted to the Trump administration for months about the executive order of “keeping men out of women’s sports.”
But now three Bills-LD 868 backed by the Republicans, LD 233 and LD 1134 were on their own floor to reverse their policy, and on the boxes of the athletes of the girls of the Maine high school they had to fight against the Democrats for it.
“They definitely asked the people with whom the people with whom they agree, and it could be said that they do not feel so compassionate,” said Cheney about democratic leaders.
“They were excited just when [pro-trans speakers] They shared, and it seemed that they really took care of them, and wanted to support them, and they didn’t feel as much as they wanted to hear our side. ”
Buck said that when the Democrats came to them with questions, they seemed “hostile.”
“They seemed more hostile towards our testimonies when they asked questions,” Buck said. “He felt that many questions were being intimidating.”
Athletics athlete of Maine Carlyn Buck girls
Even so, adolescents made sure everyone in the camera knows what they are in, since Trans athletes compete in Maine’s athletic playoffs threaten to open their entire season.
A Trans-Delete athlete who competed for the North Yarmouth Academy in Yarmouth, Maine, recently dominated the 800-meter events of the girls in the Poland-Nya-Yarmouth-Seacast meeting, which caused national outrage.
“For my teammates, and some of my best friends in the team that are in the events with [the trans athletes]It is really unfortunate for them, and only our team in general because their points will affect our team of our team, “said Himes, added that another local girl suggested that her parents did not allow her to compete in the same event with an athlete.
Buck added: “It is not just about the points, it is also that our teammates will feel discouraged when they are placed in an event against them because they are already knowing that the result is determined, playing against a biological man who is biologically stronger than them, so they have no possibility.”
Carlisle is already very familiar with that feeling of defeat, after having lost to the same athlete that dominated the measures of Poland-Nya-Yarmouth-Seacoast in career and ski competitions, which date back to 2023. In addition to that, shame to experience Experoy a Experient Grade when a trans student was in his gym class.
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Maine High Schooler Cassidy Carlisle running at a track event. (Courtesy of Cassidie Carlisle)
But even now, as an ascending crusader against the trans inclination in the sports of the girls, after having attended the marches, the meetings of the general prosecutors of the Republican Party and even a press conference of the Department of Justice that announces a lawsuit against Maine Friend has been what says the side says that Sheestgender.
“I communicate with them almost daily, we never have negative interactions,” said Carlisle. “For people who, because we are not accepting, that is not the problem. We have no problem in general with trans people. We have a problem when it begins to affect our lives.”
Carlisle has saved his resentment, not for trans people, even for trans athletes, but for mills.
“She is looking at us directly and saying” I don’t worry about you, “said Carlisle. “When I vote next time, I will take it absolutely.”
The four teenagers plan to make regular trips to the state capitol to press on behalf of LD 868, LD 233 and LD 1134 until they are signed, since they see men out of their sports and hold federal funds going to their schools.
“Our schools need federal funds,” said Carlisle. “Then by [Mills]Now he is not only looking at Maine Girl’s athletes and saying “I really don’t care.” She is looking at students in Maine and saying ‘I don’t worry about you and I don’t care if your school gets funds, because I’m going to choose a fight that you really don’t need to be chosen. ”
The DOJ has accused the State of “the Federal Law against Federal Discrimination by enforcing the policies that require girls to compete to AGA INBOYS in athletic competitions designated exclusively for girls”, according to a complaint.
Mills, the Department of Education of Maine and the Association of Directors of Maine have firmly remained in support of continuing to allow trans inclusion in girls’ sports throughout the State, citing Maine’s human rights acts as the precedent to determine gender eligibility.
Meanwhile, two school districts of Maine have already taken matters in their own hands, since Msad No. 70 and RSU No. 24 have moved to amend their own policies to keep trans athletes out of girls’ sports.
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Premaco isle High School Girls Athletes, from the left, Carlyn Buck, Hailey Himes, Cassidy Carlisle and Lucy Cheney. (Fox News Digital)
And in addition to those school districts and young women such as Carlisle, Buck, Himes and Cheyney, Mills and Democrats can end up facing more internal resistance.
TO Survey The coalition of American parents discovered that about 600 registered voters of Maine, 63% said that school sports participation should be based on biological sex, and 66% agreed that it is “just restricting women’s sports to biological women.”
The survey also found that 60% of residents would admit a voting measure that limits separation in Women and girls sports for Biological females. This included 64% of independents and 66% of parents with children under 18.
But until now, the governor has remained firm to oppose Trump on the subject, even at the expense of the legal fees funded by taxpayers.
“I am happy to go to court and litigate the problems that are being raised in this judicial complaint,” Mills told reporters in April.
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