A school district in Maine is moving to comply with the current federal definition of title IX and prohibit biological trans athletes of girls sports, while the state government fights to allow trans inclusion.
The MSAD #70 School Board voted unanimously on Monday night to comply with title IX, “recognizing only two sexes: biological women and biological women and that all private spaces are separated by biological sex.”
The superintendent of MSAD #70, Tyler Putnam Putnam, told Pak Gazette Digital that, due to this vote, he is now ordered to amend the district policies to prevent Trans athletes from competing in girls’ sports.
“The motion orders me to rewrite our policies so that they adhere to the motion. It is my interpretation that the School Board will seek to approve policies that align biological sex with their specific athletic teams also, that is, biological men will be playing only with other biological men and the same for biological women. These policies must be approved by the political committee and the Board once it is reviewed once it is reviewed once it is reviewed.
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MSAD #70 is based in Hodgdon in Aroostook County. He is the northernmost county of the State and voted for President Donald Trump for a margin of 18% in the November elections. The county also voted for two Republican state senators and seven republican representatives of the House of Representatives.
Now, the County School District will stand with Trump and its Republican legislators in the current battle on the inclusion of trans athletes in girls’ sports.
Putnam told Pak Gazette Digital that the district has not had communication with the state authorities, including the Attorney General, the Department of Education of Maine (MDOE) or the Association of Main of Maine (MPA) on the recent vote.
“We have not had communication on this specific motion. Our Board, similar to many people in Maine, has been following the round trip between the Federal Government and the State. We hope that both parties will work together to help support local school districts like us,” said Putnam.
“With the growing educational costs, this is a time when we need to work between us and not against. The Board and the number 1 priority of our staff is to provide our students with an education that positively affects their future in our great state and country. I am proud to work and be from our small community in Hodgdon, Maine.
Maine’s state representative, Tracy Quint, one of the Republicans who represents Aroostook County, praised Msad #70 for his vote.
“They encourage me to see our local community of Maine defending our students by defending the protections of the title IX. Ensure justice, security and privacy for each student must always come before politics. I urge other school districts throughout the state to follow this example and prioritize the well -being of all its students,” said Quint News Digital.
Pak Gazette Digital has communicated with the Office of the Attorney General of Maine and the Governor Janet Mills office to comment.
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Currently, the State faces immense federal pressure to comply with Trump’s executive order in February of prohibiting trans athletes from girls and women’s sports, but has firmly challenged the order under the leadership of Mills.
Maine has been sent to the Department of Justice twice during the last month, and faces a federal freezing by the United States Agriculture Department (USDA)
Maine officials He filed a lawsuit against the USDA last Monday in response to the agency’s decision to freeze the funds.
A federal judge ruled on Friday that the USDA “must immediately defrost and release the State of Maine any federal financing that freezed or failed or refused to pay due to the alleged breach of the State of Maine to meet the requirements of Title IX.”
The division of the State on trans inclusion was brought to light when Maine Laurel Libby identified a trans athlete in a position on social networks that won a girl pole jumping competition by Grelyly High School in February.
Libby was censored for its publication on social networks about the premise, identified a minor by name and with a photo. However, Libby has filed a lawsuit so that censorship is revoked, arguing that the Trans athlete had already been identified by other means before its position. The lawsuit has gone to trial in a district court of Rhode Island.
In addition to the incident that involves posts of posts in Grelyly High School, other instances have affected several girls throughout the state who have had to compete and share changing rooms with biological men.
Maine Teen Cassidy Carlisle told Pak Gazette Digital about how he had to share a costume with a trans student while he was in high school. Then he had to compete with another trans athlete in the Nordic skiing last year.
“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.”
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.
