Maine teens open up on trans athlete chaos that rocked high school experience

The athletes of Pressque Isle High School students with four women helped lead a march Maine’s state capitol building in Augusta last week.

They went to Spar with state legislative democrats over three laws that would ban biologically Males from maiden sports – The question that their national and sports season sent spiral to chaos 2025.

For the three of them, it was their first political rally and they occupied the central stage. They had to go through the Pro-Transennder counterproters outside the building and reject liberal legislators in it.

“It was a little scary knowing that they did not have the same beliefs as we did,” Hailey Himes, the first protester, told Fox News Digital.

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But Himes said she realized that she had to join the fight to protect her girls’ sports from trans athletes when her English teacher awarded her an essay on the subject on March 12.

Just a month before, Himes and other athletes were witnessing the jumper of the vault that immersed their country into a national conflict, when Trans -Sports won first place in Trezor for girls for Greely High School in early February.

“I watched this male half standing on a podium and we were all like it looks like we’re like,” We’re pretty sure it’s not a girl. No way to be a girl, “Himes said.” It was really discouraging, especially for girls on the podium, not in the first place. So it motivated me to fight for them. ”

Thus, Himes, along with their teammates with trails and field teammates, Lucy Cheney and Carrlyn Buck, marched to Augusta, after the leadership of the presque Isle, Cassidy Cassidy, who had already participated in two marchs in Augusta and trips to Washington, DC, to meet with GOP leaders.

The group has gained a lot of experience in dealing with controversy involving a trans athlete, near home, together. For years earlier, the girls saw that their high school was shaken by a situation involving a trans -Sportist, when a biological male joined a tennis team for girls.

“We’ve all heard of it from friends and none of us do tennis, so it was just a kind of mouth,” Cheney said. “At that moment, we couldn’t really do anything about it because the administration agreed to let them play, so we really had to accept it, and indeed no one else on the team really wanted to accept it, but they had to.”

All four girls added that it quickly became one of the most commonly discussed topics at Pressque Isle High School when it first happened, and continued during the 2022-23 and 2023-24 school years before the trans athlete graduated last summer.

This year, everyone had to compete under the shadow of national conflict between their state and President Donald Trump, because the government Janet Mills and the Democratic majority committed to retaining transcends in girls’ sports.

Mills’s attitude risks to costing states of state high schools, while leaving Carlisle, Himes, Cheney, Buck and their teammates facing anxiety over the competition against trance athletes in the state playoffs of trails and in the field.

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When the four teenagers went to the capitol on Thursday, they came face to face with individuals who fought to hold Trans athletes in their sport. The Democratic majority of Maine’s legislation is actively actively and aggressively resisting Trump’s administration for months because of the president’s executive order of “saving men from female sports”.

But now three accounts for Republican support- LD 868,, LD 233 and LD 1134 – They were on their own upstairs to reverse their politics, and over a dozen athletes from Maine High School was there to fight the Democrats for that.

“They definitely asked a lot less questions to the people they did not agree with from the people they got along, and you could say they don’t feel compassionate,” Cheney said of democratic leaders.

“They have become emotional only when [pro-trans speakers] We shared, and they seemed to be really worried, and they wanted to support them, and that didn’t feel as much as they wanted to hear our side. ”

Buck said that when Democrats came with them with questions, they looked “hostile”.

“They simply seemed hostile to our testimonies when they asked questions,” Buck said. “It felt like a lot of questions were baking.”

Still, teenagers made sure that everyone in the chamber knew what they were dealing with, because they are trans -athletes competing in Maine’s playoffs for trails and terrains that they will accelerate all season.

Trans-idting athlete competing for the North Yarmouth Academy in Yarmouth, Maine, recently dominated the girls at 800 meters and 1600 meters at the Poland-Youth-Yarmouth-Meacoast events, which prompted national anger.

“For my teammates and some of my best friends in the team in the events [the trans athletes]They are really unhappy for them, and only our team as a whole because these points will affect the ranking of our team, “Himes said, adding that the other local girl suggested that her parents would not allow her to compete in the same event with trance athletes.

Buck added: “It’s not just points, but it’s also that our teammates will feel discouraged when they are put into the event against them, because they already know that the outcome is decided, playing against a biological man who is biologically stronger than them, so they have no chance.”

Carlisle is already very familiar with this sense of defeat, losing the same athlete who dominated the Polish -nya-Yarmouth-Meocoast match in past runs and skiing competitions, dating from 2023. On top of that, she first had to experience a change in the same locker room with a male in seventh grade.

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But even now, as a ascending crusader against Trans -He has been attending girls sports, he attended marches, meetings of general lawyers of GOP, and even a press conference at the Ministry of Justice who announce a lawsuit against Maine about this issue, he still has a friend who is transgender.

“I communicate with them almost daily, we never have negative interactions,” Carlisle said. “For people who want to say we don’t accept, that’s not a problem. We have no problem with trans people. We have a problem when it starts to influence our lives.”

Carlisle saved outraged, not for trans people, or even for transcends, but for mills.

“She looks at us directly and says” I don’t care about you, “Carlisle said.” The next time I vote, I will absolutely take that into account. ”

All four teenagers are planning on regular trips to the state capitol in the name of LD 868, LD 233 and LD 1134 until they are signed in the law because they want men to stay out of sports and have federal financing to take their schools.

“Our schools need federal funding,” Carlisle said. “So for [Mills]Now he doesn’t just look at Maine Girl athletes and says, “I don’t really care about you.” He looks at the students in Maine and says, “I don’t care about you and I don’t care if your school will get funds, because I will choose a fight that you really don’t need to choose.”

The impression has accused the state of “open and defiantly fluiding the Federal Antodiscrimination Law by implementing policies that require girls to compete against boys in athletic competitions that are marked exclusively for girls,” the complaint received by Fox News Digital.

Mills, Maine Department of Education and the Association of Director Maine firmly supported that they continue to enable the trans -embroidery in the sports of girls throughout the country, citing the MAINE Human Rights Act as a precedent for identifying sex.

In the meantime, two school districts of Maine have already taken things into their own hands, because msad no. 70 and RSU no. 24 moved on to a change of their own policies to keep the translettes out of sports from the girls.

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And besides these school districts and young women like Carlisle, Buck, Himes and Cheyney, Mills Democrats will ultimately face more resistance than external.

AND survey The coalition of American parents revealed that out of about 600 registered Maine, 63%, the participation in school sports should be based on the biological sex, and 66% agreed that “only FER limits women’s sports on biological women.”

Survey also revealed that 60% of the population would support a voting measure limiting participation in Women’s and maiden sports to Biological females. This included 64% independent and 66% of parents with children under the age of 18.

But so far, the governor has remained firmly contrary to Trump on this issue, even at the price of legal fees funded by taxes.

“I’m happy to go to court and litigate the questions that are asked in this court,” Mills told reporters in April.

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