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The girls’ track competition in Maine has been the subject of widespread controversy after trans-athletes dominated multiple running events. The incident came as states faced internal and federal pressures to keep trans athletes out of women’s sports and faced a lawsuit over issues from the president. Donald Trump’s management.
The trans-identified athletes who competed at North Yarmouth Academy in Yarmouth, Maine won the women’s 800-meter and 1600-meter events. October 2023, Fox News Digital It has been reported This athlete was transgender. Fox News Digital reached out to North Yarmouth Academy for comment.
The athlete has made national headlines in Maine back that month, after finishing 172nd among boys and jumping to fourth in the 5K category. The athlete again made a national headline this February when he competed in Scandinavian skiing at Maine’s high school Scandinavian skiing championships and won the podium.
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At the Poland Near Yalmouth Seacoast Meeting on Friday, the athletes scored the 1600 metres in the 5:57.27 hour, blew the second-placed runner who finished in the 6:16.32 hour. At 800m, the trans athlete etched a closer first place finish at 2:43.31.
Local high school sports photographer David Young, owner of Maine Running Photos, was there to photograph the competition.
“He blew all the girls of that particular race [the 1600m]there was no one near him, and it was easy to win. ” Young told Fox News Digital. “At 800m, that was a second difference.
Young added that there were multiple spectators at the tournament to cheer on trans athletes, but there were no protests to hear.
“There were a few people who yelled his name. He’s pretty well known,” Young said.
Young said the 2023 photos of the athlete went very viral on Facebook, prompting so much backlash that they ended up deleting those photos due to an overwhelming response.
“It was getting so troublesome,” Young said.
“I didn’t just get it from people who were there for transgender people, I was getting it from people who were anti-transgender. And I didn’t know what to do, so someone said, ‘If you just delete the photo, the discussion would go away.” So I deleted the photo and the discussion went away. ”
However, Young said that even after what happened last time, he plans to post the latest photos of the athlete on his Facebook page anyway.
Many of the past photos of athletes have gone viral on social media in the aftermath of the athletes’ latest victory. Maine residents, politicians and even national experts have posted media, including athletes, spurring national debate and awareness at the conference as Maine faces ongoing internal and federal conflicts over the issue.
“Today, the biological men won 800 & 1600 in the women’s division in the main track meet. The second, three, four, and even more girls who went further in those races were pushed away so the boys could “win.” This is not fair.
Libby previously created a Facebook post identifying another trans athlete who won the pole-type competition for girls. Libby was condemned for the post by the Democratic majority in Congress and is currently involved in a lawsuit on the issue.
California conservative activist Beth Bourne has taken a national attention to the issue by posting footage of the competition to X.
Women’s activists’ track and field wears the XX-XY Athletics to turn competitive footage into advertising.
One Maine female athlete who had to compete with trans athletes in Nordic skiing previously spoke to Fox News Digital about her sense of defeat after losing to an athlete.
“The defeat that comes with it in that moment is heartbreaking,” Carlisle said. “I’m just shocked in a way. I didn’t believe it… I didn’t think it was happening to me.”
The U.S. Department of Justice has released a lawsuit against Maine over the ongoing rebellion of Trump’s executive order to block biological men out of girls and women’s sports and suspect Title IX violations. Attorney General Pam Bondy The lawsuit was announced at a press conference on April 16th.
Bondy said he was seeking an injunction and returned to the girl who won the sport in which the title was “just rightly” by transathletes.
The Justice Department has condemned the “open and rebellious, fossimistic anti-discrimination law” by enforcing policies requiring girls to compete with boys in athletics designated exclusively for girls, according to a complaint obtained by Fox News.
Meanwhile, the Maine Department of Education and the Maine Principals Association are strongly supportive of continuing transport to women’s sports across the state, citing Maine human rights law as a precedent for determining gender eligibility.
“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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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 woman. This included 64% of parents with children under the age of 18 and 66% of parents.
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