A high school athlete in Maine is talking against state policies that allow transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports.
Cassidy Carlisle, a skier through the country, says he has witnessed the effects of such first -hand policies. He recalled a high school incident when he met a transgender student in the girls’ locker room.
“When I was a 13 -year -old girl, when you enter the wardrobe and see a biological man standing there, that’s something you can’t express with words,” Carlisle said in “America Reports” Wednesday.
“I knew something was wrong at that time.”
Carlisle says the incident informed school administrators at that time, but the experience was left with her. Now, he is speaking publicly to advocate what he calls justice and security for female athletes.
“It doesn’t matter if you are one or 100, you are removing opportunities for women. And that’s not right,” he said.
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Carlisle’s comments occur when the United States Department of Justice announced a lawsuit against the State of Maine. The lawsuit claims that the State is violating title IX by allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls’ sports, challenging an executive order of President Donald Trump with the objective of restricting said partipation.
Attorney General Pam Bondi spokes a duration of a press conference at the headquarters of the Department of Justice in Washington, on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (Photo AP/José Luis Magana)
“The Department of Justice will not sit when women are discriminated against in sports,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi at a press conference on Wednesday.
The governor of Maine, Janet Mills, responded strongly to the lawsuit, defending the position of the State.
“Today is the last and expected saves in an unprecedented campaign to press the state of mainore the Constitution and leave the rule of law,” Mills said in a written statement.
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“This issue has never passed on school sports or women and girls, as stated, it is the rule of law of the states against a federal government, impose their will, instead of defending the law.”
“Let it serve as a warning for all states: Maine could be among the first to attract the anger of the federal government in this way, but we will not be the last,” he added.
Carlisle, however, retreated the governor’s statement, saying that the problem is about protecting young women.
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“It’s about girl athletes. And if not, the fact that you are willing to fight that fight and put your athletes in danger is heartbreaking,” he said.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, signs the Executive Order of No Men In Women’s Sports Sports in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 5, 2025. President Trump is signing on Wednesday an executive order on sports girls of the composition of the latest movements of the competence of transgender rights. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP)
Carlisle says that she and other activists are not talking about this issue for them, but for future female athletes.
“You know it’s not about me,” said Carlisle. “This is the generations to come and that we are protecting them.”
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The Department of Justice argues that Maine’s policies violate the federal law against discrimination by demanding girls who compete against boys in some sporting events.
An investigation carried out by the Department of Secretary of Education of Linda McMahon concluded that Maine violated Title IX. That investigation led to the matter referring to the Department of Justice.
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The lawsuit follows a separate legal battle between Maine and the United States Agriculture Department (USDA), which had frozen federal funds on the transgender athletes policy of the State. Maine sued the USDA, accusing him of retaining funds that support meals in schools, child care centers and disabled adults programs. Since then, a federal judge has ordered that the funds be restored.
The last action of the Department of Justice also expresses from a high profile shock in February between President Trump and Governor Mills at a White House meeting. His dispute over the transgender athletes ended with both parties stating: “See you in court.”