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Four female squads of high school athletes on Presque Island helped lead the march Maine Capitol Construction was made in Augusta last week.
They went to state legislative Democrats and Spur over three bills banning biology Girls sports men – The issue of 2025 that caused state and sports season to get caught up in chaos.
For three of them, it was their first political gathering, and they were on the central stage. They had to pass through transgender protesters outside the building, among which they had to be liberal lawmakers to dismiss.
“It was a bit scary to know they didn’t have the same beliefs as us,” first-time protester Haley Himez told Fox News Digital.
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Main Girls Athlete Hailey Himes (Commentary of Haley Himez)
However, Himes said that when the English teacher assigned an essay on the subject on March 12, he realized that he had to join the fight to protect women’s sports from trans athletes.
A month earlier, Himes and other female athletes witnessed a pole vault jump that forced their state into a national conflict in early February when trans athletes won first place at Girls’ Pole Vault at Greely High School.
“I saw this male Paul Vaulter on the podium. We all seemed to be looking at, ‘I’m sure we’re sure it’s not a girl. There’s no way to be a girl,'” Himes said. “It was really disappointing, especially for the girls on the podium rather than the first place, so I motivated them to fight for them.”
Himes marched in Augusta along with his track and field teammates Lucy Cheney and Carlyn Buck, following the lead of fellow Presque Isle Track Athlete Cassidy Carlyle, who had already taken part in Austa’s two marchs and a trip to Washington, DC, and followed the lead of fellow Presque Isle Track athlete Cassidy Carlyle, whom he met alongside the GOP leader.
The group gained a lot of experience dealing with controversies involving transathletes and dealing with them together close to home for years. A few years ago, the girls saw the high school shaking in situations involving trans-athletes when a biological man joined the girls’ tennis team.
“We’ve all heard it from friends and none of us play tennis, so it was just a word of mouth,” Cheney said. “At that point, the administration agreed to let them play, so we really couldn’t do anything about it, so we really had to accept it.
Main Girls Athletics Athlete Lucy Chaney
All four girls added that it became one of the most discussed topics at Presque Isle High School when it first happened, and that it continued throughout the 2022-23 and 2023-24 school year before the trans athlete graduated last summer.
This year, this year, they all had to compete in the shadow of a national conflict between the state and President Donald Trump.
Mills’ stance risks state high school funding while facing unrest in competing with Carlisle, Heameth, Cheney, Buck and trans athletes in the state track and field playoffs at the expense of federal funding for state high schools.
When four teens entered Capitol on Thursday, they met with individuals who were fighting to keep trans athletes in the sport. The Democratic majority in Maine Legislature has been aggressively and proactively resisting the Trump administration for months by the president’s executive order “protecting men from women’s sports.”
But now, three Republican-backed bills – LD 868, LD 233 and LD 1134 – I was on my floor to reverse that policy, and Maine high school athletes were there to fight over dozens of people.
“They definitely asked far fewer questions to those they disagreed than those they agreed with, and you could say they didn’t feel compassionate,” Cheney said of the Democratic leader.
“They’ve always got emotional [pro-trans speakers] We shared, they seemed really caring for them, they wanted to support them, and they didn’t feel as much as they wanted to hear our side. ”
Buck said when Democrats came to them with questions they were thought to be “hostile.”
“When they asked the questions they looked more hostile to our testimony,” Buck said. “It felt like a lot of questions were bothering me.”
Main Girls Athletics Athlete Carling Back
Still, the teens have made sure that everyone in the teens know they’re dealing with it as trans athletes competing in the Maine track and field playoffs threaten to promote the entire season.
The trans-identifying athlete who competed in the North Yarmouth Academy in Yarmouth, Maine recently dominated the women’s 800-meter and 1600-meter events at the Poland and Near-Yalmas Saecoast competitions, spurring national rage.
“For my teammates and some of my best friends on the team that attended the event. [the trans athletes]Himes said these points affect our team’s rankings, which is a real shame for them.
Buck added, “It’s not just the point, but because they already know that the outcome is being determined, so they’ll feel discouraged when they’re placed in an event against them.”
Carlisle is already familiar with the loss of losing to the same athlete who dominated the Poland and Nia Yalmouth tournaments in past running and ski competitions, dating back to 2023. In addition, she first had to experience changes in the same locker room as the seventh grade man who was in her gum class.
Main high school student Cassidy Carlisle runs at a track event. (Provided by Cassidie Carlisle)
But even now, she says she still has friends who are transgender, as a rising crusade against the inclusion of trans into women’s sports, a meeting of the GOP Attorney General, and even a Justice Department press conference to announce a lawsuit against Maine on the issue.
“I communicate with them almost every day. There’s no negative interaction,” Carlisle said. “For those who want to say we don’t accept it, that’s not a problem. There’s generally no problem with trans people. It’s the problem when it starts to affect our lives.”
Carlisle saved her res, not for Mills, even trans people and trans athletes.
“She looks at us in person and says, ‘I don’t care about you,'” Carlisle said. “The next time I vote, I will definitely take that into consideration.”
All four will travel regularly to the Capitol on behalf of LD 868, LD 233 and LD 1134 to lobby on behalf of Ld 1134 until the law is signed.
“Our schools need federal funding,” Carlisle said. “that’s why [Mills]Now she’s not just looking at the main girl athlete and saying, “I really don’t care about you.” She looks at students in Maine and says, “I don’t care about you, and I don’t care if your school gets funding, because I’m choosing a fight that I don’t really need to choose.” ”
The DOJ has condemned the “openly and rebelliously the federal anti-discrimination law” by enforcing policies requiring boys to compete in athletics designated exclusively for girls, according to a Fox News Digital complaint.
Mills of the Maine Department of Education and the Maine Principal Association are helping to continue transport to women’s sports throughout the state, citing Maine human rights law as a precedent for determining gender eligibility.
Meanwhile, two Maine school districts are already putting the issues into their own hands as MSAD No. 70 and RSU No. 24 each moved to amend their own policies to keep transathletes out of women’s sports.
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Presque Isle High School Girls Athlete, from left to right: Carlingback, Hailey Himez, Cassidy Carlisle, and Lucy Chaney. (Fox News Digital)
And, in addition to these school districts and young women like Carlisle, Buck, Hiss, Cheney and Mills, they may end up facing more internal resistance than the outside.
a Surveys by research The American Parents Union found that of around 600 registered Maine voters, 63% agreed that school sports participation should be based on biological sex, while 66% agreed that “it’s fair to limit women’s sports to biological women.”
The poll also found that 60% of residents support a voting measure that restricts participation in Women and girls’ sports Biological women. This included 64% of parents with children under the age of 18 and 66% of parents.
But so far, the governor has cemented his opposition to Trump on the issue, even at the expense of taxpayer-funded legal costs.
“I’m happy to go to court and sue the issues being filed in this court complaint,” Mills told reporters in April.
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