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Maine trans athlete The conflict reignited this week as residents took action at school board meetings.
During one meeting school board Two women stripped off their clothes in the state capital of Augusta on Wednesday to protest a state policy that allows biological males to compete in women's sports and use women's locker rooms.
The stunt came as local parent Nick Blanchard delivered a monologue condemning the school board for enforcing state policy on the issue. Blanchard spoke earlier in the meeting, but returned to the lectern at the end of the meeting with women protesters behind him to take action.
“I’m going to show you guys how uncomfortable young girls are,” Blanchard told board members. “Are you feeling uncomfortable? Because that's exactly what these young girls feel when a boy walks into their locker room and starts changing in front of them. Yes, you feel uncomfortable, right? That's how these young girls feel every time a boy changes in front of them.”
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Two women strip naked at a school board meeting in Augusta, Maine, to protest trans athletes in women's sports. (Augusta Schools)
Both women continued to remove their clothes as Blanchard's speech continued.
“This is the capital of Maine. We must set an example for the rest of the state. Do you know what kind of example you guys set? That we don’t care about the young girls in the rest of the state,” he added.
A similar trick Happened at a California school board meeting when local women's rights activist Beth Bourne stripped off while speaking at the Davis Unified. School council meeting September 18. Bourne also protested the policy of allowing men in women's locker rooms.
The US Department of Justice has sued educational agencies in California and Maine over their policies allowing trans athletes to participate in women's sports.
Several individual school districts in both states passed their own resolutions in support of enforcing President Donald Trump's “keep men out of girls' sports” executive order, while Democratic leadership in those states refused to comply.
Elsewhere in Maine, the RSU 24 school board passed one such amendment last week.
Republican gubernatorial candidate David Jones spoke at the meeting in support of the resolution.
“I have nothing against people who have different feelings about who they are, but in my opinion and according to God, there is one man and one woman, not two different types of men or two different types of women. Biology doesn’t lie,” Jones said.
“Don't let us go backwards. Let's do what we need to do to protect every girl in Maine and make sure they are not harmed in any way.”
Maine has freely allowed trans athletes to compete against girls since 2005, when the Maine Human Rights Act prohibited discrimination based on gender identity.
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The Maine Principals Association (MPA) updated its policy in 2024 to explicitly allow transgender students to compete on teams that match their gender identity.
The state, especially its Democratic leadership led by Gov. Janet Mills, has been working hard to defy Trump and protect the rights of its trans athletes to compete with girls and share women's locker rooms.
Many residents, and now school districts, have taken steps to confront Mills. There have been numerous protests across the state, including two at the state Capitol in August, organized by activists seeking to protect girls from trans rivals.
A survey conducted The Coalition of American Parents found that of approximately 600 registered Maine voters, 63% said participation in school sports should be based on biological sex, and 66% agreed that “it is only fair to limit participation in girls' sports to biological women.”
The poll also found that 60% of residents would support a ballot measure that would limit participation. V women's and women's sports biological females. This included 64% of independents and 66% of parents with children under 18.
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