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Another Maine school district has issues in its own hands in the State dispute over transgender athletes in girls’ sports.
On Tuesday, the Board of Directors of the School Unit of the Maine Region (RSU) No. 24 voted 7-1 to rescind a policy that allows transmote athletes to compete in girls sports.
The rescinded policy, the JB policy, declared that “students will be able to participate according to the gender identity affirmed in the school.”
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The Superintendent of RSU No. 24, Michael Eastman, confirmed to Fox News Digital that the district and its schools will stop following the policy immediately.
“At its meeting last night, after a respectful deliberation, the RSU Board of Directors No. 24 voted 7-1 (a director was absent) to rescind the JB-Transgender policy and the gender expansive student,” said Eastman. “This change will take place immediately. We appreciate the participation last night and we will thank the residents who went to the Board with their thoughts about politics.”
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RSU No. 24 operates five public schools in Sullivan, Maine. Hancock County, where Sullivan is located, voted in favor of Donald Trump in the November elections for a margin or 52.9% to 45.3%.
The Eastman district is not the first to amend a chosen gender policy in recent weeks.
MSAD School Board No. 70 unanimously voted in mid -April to comply with Title IX“Recognize only two sexes, biological men and biological women, and that all private spaces separate by biological sex.”
MSAD Superintendent No. 70, Tyler Putnam, told Fox News Digital that, which, which, which,
“The motion addresses me to rewrite our policies to adhere to the motion,” Putnam said. “It is my interpretation that the School Board will seek to address the policies that align biological sex with their specific athletic teams, biological men will play only with other biological men and the same for biological. These policies. These policies. Those police. Those police.
The Department of Justice is hosting Maine for not complying with the executive order to “keep men out of Trump’s women’s sports. Maine has allowed Trans athletes to compete with girls since 2005, when Maine’s Human Rights Law prohibited discrimination based on gender identity.
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The Association of Main of Maine (MPA) updated its policies in 2024 to explicitly allow transgender students to compete in teams that coincide with their gender identity.
The State, particularly its democratic leadership led by Governor Janet Mills, doubling to challenge Trump and protect the rights of their trans -athletes to compete against girls and share girls’ locker room.
Many residents, and now the school districts have tasks to oppose the factories. There are multiple bone protests in the state, including two in the State Capitol in August, by activists who seek to protect girls from Trans competitors.
Attention to the problem was magnified last week after an athlete Trans won multiple events at a girl athletics meeting.
A Trans-Ideyifier athlete competing for the North Yarmouth Academy in Yarmouth, Maine. In the 800 meters, the trans athlete, a closer first place with a time or 2: 43.31, a little a second better than the second place finalist with a time or 2: 44.87.
In October 2023, Fox News Digital reported that this athlete was transgender.
TO Survey The coalition of American parents discovered that about 600 registered voters of Maine, 63% said that school sports participation should be based on biological sex, and 66% agreed that it is “just restricting women’s sports to biological women.”
The survey also found that 60% of residents would admit a voting measure that limits separation in Women and girls sports for Biological females. This included 64% of independents and 66% of parents with children under 18.
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