Cassidy Carlisle was in seventh grade, he said, when he had to change in the same costume as a transgender student.
During a class of gymnastics at the Presque Isle high school in northern Maine six years ago, he said, he entered the locker room to find a biological man who would change with her and other girls. She claims that the administrators told her that if she tried to avoid changing with the trans student, she would risk being late for class.
“That was really my first experience in knowing that something is not right, but not knowing what to do with that,” Carlisle told Pak Gazette Digital in an exclusive interview. FOX News Digital has communicated with Middle School Premación to comment.
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Gender identity was included for the first time in Maine’s Human Rights Law as part of the definition of sexual orientation in 2005. In 2021, the law was modified to add gender identity as its own protected class, joining other protected classes such as sex, sexual orientation, disability, race, color and religion. The law specifically says that denying equal opportunities of the person in sports programs is educational discrimination.
The transgender student was only in the girls locker room for about a week, says Carlisle, before mysteriously disappear. But the memory of the experience stayed with her.
Maine Cassidy Carlisle Skiing high school student (Courtesy of Cassidy Carlisle)
The memory was especially with her in her third year of high school, when she discovered that she would compete with a Trans athlete in the state nordic ski team.
He was an athlete with whom he was familiar. She had already lost to the Trans athlete in competitions through the country in previous years.
When his father told him that he would have to face the athlete again in skiing, Carlisle did not believe he was happening.
“I thought, ‘Oh, that’s just something I hear in the news … it won’t happen to me,” Cassidy recalled.
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Maine High School Cassidy Carlisle running at a track event (Courtesy of Cassidy Carlisle)
But it happened to her.
“The defeat that comes with that at that time is heartbreaking,” said Carlisle. “I am in a state of shock in a way. I did not believe it … I did not think it was happening to me.”
When I was a child, Carlisle left her mixed hockey team specifically because she felt that “he could not keep up” with the children. Then, even after committing to a sport only for girls, he could not escape the physical disadvantage that came with biological men.
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In addition to the anxiety of the situation, Carlisle felt that he could not talk about that.
“I was silent for a while,” Carlisle said. “It is very difficult to talk if you do not have a platform to do it … the reaction is a huge thing. I am a high school student. No high school student wants to be injured or shout or say bad comments by people. And the reality of it, with the state in which I live, that could happen.”
What I could do was vote in the November elections. As a voter for the first time, he cast his vote with the theme of trans athletes in girls’ sports at the forefront.
TO national output survey Made by the Legislative Women’s Action Committee for Women for America, it found that 70% of moderate voters saw the issue of “Donald Trump’s opposition to transgender children and men who interpret sports of girls and women and women and transgender men and men who use girls and women’s baths” as is important for them.
And 6% said it was the most important issue of all, while 44% said it was “very important.”
When Maine’s Republican state representative, Laurel Libby, spoke earlier this year against another Trans athlete who won a female pole jump competition in February, Carlisle suddenly won an opportunity to influence the problem.
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The publication of Libby social networks identifying the Athlete Trans brought the entire State to an in progress. It became the zero zone for a national battle on the issue freed by the Trump administration against several states controlled by the Democrats such as Maine after Trump signed an executive order to address the problem on February 5.
Suddenly, thousands of people in Maine were talking against the laws of the State that allow trans inclusion in girls and changing rooms, all with the president’s support.
Then Carlisle joined.
On February 27, Carlisle made a trip to the White House with several other current and previous athletes that have been affected by trans inclusion, including Payton McNabb and Selina Soule. There, they met with Attorney General Pam Bondi and several other general state prosecutors and shared their stories.
Carlisle could not avoid noticing an absence in the White House that day,
“None of our AGS was there from our state,” said Carlisle.
Then, when Carlisle returned to his state, he took the matter in his own hands.
Last weekend, he spoke a speech against the Capitol of Maine, speaking with hundreds of other residents there to protest against Governor Janet Mills for her continuum by enabling trans athletes in girls’ sports.
It was the second protest against Mills outside the Capitol in a month after the March on Mills rally on March 1.
The Trump administration is taking aggressive measures for the State to adhere to Carlisle’s wishes and other residents who want protected females of trans inclusion.
On March 17, the Office of Civil Rights of Health and Human Services (OCR) announced that if it was at the Department of Education of Maine, the Association of Directors of Maine and the Greely Secondary School in violation of Title IX for continuing to allow trans inclusion in the sports of girls.
In the announcement, the department said that Maine had 10 days to correct his policies through an agreement signed or risk derivation to the United States Department of Justice for appropriate actions.
Trump has already shown the will to reduce federal funds to enforce these policies. He paused $ 175 million in funds for the University of Pennsylvania and temporarily arrested funds for the University of Maine’s system last week until a review discovered that the system fully complied with Trump’s orders.
The deadline for the rest of Maine to meet will be presented within the week.
“I really hope Maine meets because our schools need federal funds, and we can’t risk losing that,” said Carlisle. “I would really damage our state to lose that federal financing. So, I hope our government can gather it.”
