Maine trans athlete battle: girls’ track meet dominance ignites controversy

The Maine Girl’s Trail became the subject of widespread controversy after a trans -sports dominated in multiple run events. The incident happened as the state faced internal and federal pressure so that the transcers would not be kicked out of the girls’ sport and a lawsuit on the matter Donald Trump administration.

A trans-idting athlete who competed for the North Yarmouth Academy in Yarmouth, Maine, won in the events of girls in 800 meters and 1600 meters. In October 2023, Fox News Digital reported that this athlete was transgender. Fox News Digital addressed the North Yarmouth Academy for comment.

The athlete brought national titles from that month in Maine after jumping fourth in the 5K division in the girls category after finishing in 172. Among the boys. The athlete re -made national titles for a Nordic skiing competition and occupying the podium in the Maine Championship in High School in the Nordic skiing last February.

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On Friday, at a meeting of Poland -nya-Yarmouth-Meacoast, the athlete won 1600 meters with a time of 5: 57.27, a blowing runner-up runner who ended with a time of 6: 16.32. At 800m, the trans athlete imprinted a closer first place with a time with a time of 2: 43.31, only about a second better than the runner -up finisher with a time of 2: 44.87.

Local high school sports photographer David Young, owner of Maine Running Photography, was there to record a meeting.

“Broke all the girls in that particular race [the 1600m]There was no one nearby, he easily won it. “Young told Fox News Digital.” At 800m, it was a difference in one second, the girl tried hard to catch him. ”

Young added that there were more spectators at the meeting to cheer up transcends, but without sound protests.

“There were several people who shouted his name, he’s pretty famous,” Young said.

Young said that his photographs of the athlete of 2023 became such a viral on Facebook and encouraged so much return blow that he eventually removed those photos because of an irresistible response.

“It was too nasty,” Young said.

“Not only did I get it from people who were for transgender people, I got it from people who were anti-prevailing people. And I didn’t know what to do, and someone finally said,” Well, if you just remove the photo, the discussion will disappear. “So, I removed the photo and the discussion disappeared.”

However, Young said he plans to post his latest photographs on his Facebook page anyway, even after what happened last time.

Many Young last photos of athletes have become viral on social media after the last victory of the athlete. Residents of Maine, politicians and even national experts, published the media, including athletes and encouraged the national discussion and awareness of the meeting while Maine faces internal and federal conflict over the issue.

“Today, a biological male won 800 and 1600 in a division for girls at the encounter with Maine path. Every girl who marketed on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and further in these races she was pushed aside so that the boy could” win “. This is not fair.

Libby made a Facebook post earlier who identified a different trans-aestor who won a competition in a girl’s police officer. Libby has censored mail for this place of democratic majority and is currently involved in a lawsuit over the issue.

California conservative activist Beth Bourne has attracted a wide national attention to this question by publishing recordings of the competition on X.

Women’s activist athletics carries a XX-XY athletics brand even turned the competition shots into the ad.

One of the athletes of Maine who had to compete against the trans athletes in the Nordic skiing, he told Fox News Digital about a sense of defeat that came with a athlete’s loss.

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“The defeat that comes with that is heart at that moment,” Carlisle said. “I’m in shock in some way. I didn’t believe … I didn’t think it was happening to me.”

The US Ministry of Justice announced a lawsuit against the state of Maine for continuous defiance of Trump’s executive order for biological males to remain from the sport of girls and female sports and alleged violations of the title IX. State Attorney Pam Bondi He announced a lawsuit at a press conference on April 16.

Bondi said she was looking for a ban and that the titles would be returned to girls who were “rightly” winning in competitions in which trans athletes participated.

The Ministry of Justice has accused the state of “open and defiantly fluttering the Federal Law on Discrimination with policies that require girls to compete against boys in athletic competitions marked exclusively for girls,” the Fox News said.

Meanwhile, Governor Janet Mills, Maine Department of Education and Director Association of MAINEA have firmly supported that they continue to enable transferring to sports girls throughout the country, citing the MAINE Human Rights Act as a precedent to determine the eligibility of gender.

“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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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.

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