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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 in three bills that would prohibit the biological males of girls’ sports, a problem that has sent their state and sports seasons to chaos in 2025.
For three of them, it was their first political concentration, and they were taking the center of the stage. 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, Pak Gazette 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 his 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 immersed its state in a national conflict, when an athlete Trans won the first place in the pole jump of the girls for Grelyly High School in early February.
“I saw this male pole jumper stand on the podium and we were all as if we were as’ we are quite sure that she is not a girl. There is no way to be a girl,” Himes said. “It was really discouraging, especially for girls on the podium not first. So 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 of Track Presque Isle Cassidy Carlisle, who has already participated in two boots in Augusta and trips to Washington, DC, to meet with the leaders of the Republican Party on the subject.
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 of us makes tennis, so it was a kind of mouth to mouth,” 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 team really wanted 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 discussed themes at the Premque Isle high school when it first happened, and continued during the school years 2022-23 and 2023-24, before the Trans athlete graduated last summer.
Now, this year, everyone has had to compete in the shadow of a national conflict between their state and President Donald Trump because Governor Janet Mills and the democratic majority have committed 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.
Maine shaken by the mastery of the trans athlete on the girls track at the meeting in the midst of continuous legal conflict with Trump
When the four teenagers got into the Capitol on Thursday, they faced face to face with the people who struggled to keep trans athletes in their sports. The democratic majority of the Maine Legislature has resisted actively and aggressively to the Trump administration for months about the executive order of sports of “keeping men out of women’s sports.”
But now three bills backed by Republicans, LD 868, LD 233 and LD 1134, were on their own floor to reverse their policy, and more than a dozen girls’ athletes from Maine’s high school were there to fight the Democrats for it.
“They definitely asked the people with whom they did not agree than the people with whom they did agree, and it could be said that they did not feel so compassionate,” Cheney said about democratic leaders.
“They were excited just when [pro-trans speakers] They shared, and it seemed that they really took care of them, and they 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 bothering.”
Athletics athlete of Maine Carlyn Buck girls
Even so, adolescents made sure that everyone in the camera knows what they were, since Trans athletes competing in the Maine Athletics Playoffs threaten to fly their entire season.
A transdentifying athlete competing for the North Yarmouth Academy in Yarmouth, Maine, recently dominated the events of girls of 800 meters and 1600 meters at the Poland-Nya-Yarmouth-Seacet 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 for our team in general because those 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 a trans 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 who dominated the Poland-Nya-Yarmouth-Seacoast meeting in career and ski skills, which dates back to 2023. In addition to that, he first had to experience the change in the same boxes with a man in seventh grade when a trans student 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 trans inclusion in girls’ sports, after having attended the marches, 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 on the subject, he says he still has a transgender friend.
“I communicate with them almost daily, we never have negative interactions,” said Carlisle. “For people who mean we are not accepting, that is not the problem. We have no problem in general with trans people. We have a problem when our lives begin to affect.”
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 care about you,” said Carlisle. “When you vote next time, I will take it into consideration.”
“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 worry about you’. She is looking at the 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 really doesn’t need to be chosen’ “.
The DOJ has accused the State of “the Federal Law against Federal Discrimination by enforcing policies that require girls to compete against boys in athletic competitions designated exclusively for girls”, according to a complaint obtained by Pak Gazette Digital.
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 Law as the precedent to determine gender eligibility.
Meanwhile, two school districts of Maine have already taken the matter 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.
Premaco isle High School Girls Athletes, from the left, Carlyn Buck, Hailey Himes, Cassidy Carlisle and Lucy Cheney. (Pak Gazette 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 participation 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.
