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

A girl’s track meeting in Maine became the subject of widespread controversy after a trans -athlete dominated several running events. The incident occurred Donald Trumps Administration.

A transficating athlete who competed for the North Yarmouth Academy in Yarmouth, Maine, won the girls’ 800-meter and 1600-meter events. In October 2023 Digital Fox News Digital reported that this athlete was transgender. Fox News Digital made the North Yarmouth Academy a comment.

The athlete made national headlines in Maine after he had thrown the girls in the girls ‘5 -km division in the girls’ category after he had previously taken the 172nd place among the boys. The athlete again made national headlines because last February at the Nordic ski championships in Maine in Maine’s High School State Nordic Skiing Championships in a podium spot in Maine.

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On Friday at the meeting with Polen-Nya-Yarmouth Seacoast, the athlete won the 1600-meter meeting with a time of 5: 57.27 and blew the second-placed runner away, which was finished with a time of 6: 16.32. In the 800 m, the trans-athlete with a time of 2: 43.31 made a closer first place, almost a second better than second place with a time of 2: 4.87.

The local high school sports photographer David Young, owner of Maine Running Photography, was there to turn the meet.

“He blown away all girls in this specific breed [the 1600m]Nobody was nearby, it easily won. “Young said to Fox News Digital.

Young added that there were several spectators in the meeting to celebrate the trans -athletes, but no audible protests.

“There were a few people who screamed his name, he is quite well known,” said Young.

Young said that his 2023 photos of the athletes had become so viral on Facebook and triggered so much counter -reactions that he removed these photos due to the overwhelming reaction.

“It got too bad,” said Young.

“I not only got it from the people who were for transgenderers, but I got it from people who were anti-transfer. And I didn’t know what to do, and someone finally said:” Well, if they only remove the photo, the debate will disappear. “So I removed the photo and the debate disappeared.”

However, Young said that he is planning to publish his latest photos of the athlete on his Facebook page anyway, even after what happened last time.

Many of the earlier photos of The Athlete from Young have become viral on social media after the recent victory of the athlete on social media. The residents, politicians and even national experts from Maine published media such as the athletes and triggered the national debate and awareness of the meeting when Maine faces an ongoing internal and federal conflict.

“Today a biological man won the 800 & 1600 in the Girls Division in a Maine Track meeting. Every girl who placed the 2nd, 3rd, 4. and further in these races was pushed aside so that a boy could” win “. This is not fair.

Before before, Libby made a Facebook post that identified another trans-athlete who won a girl’s competition. Libby was censored for the post by the democratic majority of the legislator and is currently involved in a lawsuit on the topic.

Beth Bourne, a conservative activist of the California conservatives, drew national attention to the topic by playing the competition on X.

The athletics of women activists even carry the XX-Xy athletics brand into an advertisement.

One of the athletes in Maine who had to compete against the Trans -Athlete in Nordic Skiing previously told Fox News digitally about the feeling of defeat that was accompanied by the loss of the athlete.

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“The defeat associated with that at that moment is heartbreaking,” said Carlisle. “In a way, I’m just shocked. I didn’t believe it … … I didn’t think it was happening to me.”

The US Ministry of Justice announced a lawsuit against the state of Maine because he continues to keep to Trump’s executive order to keep biological men away from girls’ and women’s sports, and to keep alleged violations away against titles IX. Attorney General Pam Bondi the lawsuit announced at a press conference on April 16.

Bondi said she was looking for an injunction and returned to the girls who “rightly” won competitions in which Trans -Athletes took part.

The Ministry of Justice “accused the state openly and defiantly against the law on the law of anti -discrimination laws of the federal government by enforcing guidelines according to which girls have to compete against boys in sporting competitions that are only shown for girls,” said Fox News.

In the meantime, Governor Janet Mills, the Ministry of Education from Maine and the Maine Principal’s Association, have firmly kept to enable the trans integration into sports in the whole state.

“I am happy to go to court and quote the questions that are raised in this court complaint,” Mills told reporters in April.

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A Poll from The coalition of the American Parents Coalition found that of around 600 registered voters from Maine, 63% information that the participation of school sports should be based on organic sex, and 66% agreed that it is “only fair to restrict women’s sports to biological women”.

The survey also showed that 60% of the residents would support a ballot limit of participation In Women and girls sports too Biological women. This included 64% of the independent and 66% of parents with children under the age of 18.

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