Round Two -- Maine

In 2014 we had Round 1 in the legal challenges in Maine when a trans-girl who was discriminated against in Maine and whose case went all the way to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court was awarded $75,000.

Now we are having Round 2...

Maine headed to trial over transgender athletes

WGME

May 9th 2025

Maine is headed to trial for allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls’ sports.

A court date has been scheduled for December.

Maine met the deadline to respond to the Trump administration's lawsuit on Thursday.

The Justice Department says Maine is violating President Donald Trump's interpretation of Title IX and wants a court to take action against the state.

Ah... "Trump's interpretation of Title IX" his views do not match those of the courts!

Civil rights advocates say debate about transgender athletes ignores chronic violations of Title IX

Maine Public

By Patty Wight

May 14, 2025

It was March — Women's History Month — when Republican representative Laurel Libby stepped to a lectern at a state house press conference to decry Maine's policies on transgender athletes.

"We find ourselves in a battle to preserve the very definition of what it means to be a woman," she said.

Flanked by female Republican colleagues clad in white in honor of suffragettes more than a century ago, Libby pronounced that transgender athletes are a threat to women's hard-earned rights.

You see the Republicans still believe that one morning we wake up and say, "Gee you know I really want to be bullied, harassed, assaulted... it will be fun!"

But critics say the movement to ban transgender athletes from girls' sports doesn't have anything to do with fairness.

"This is not about protecting women," said Shiwali Patel, the Senior Director of Safe and Inclusive Schools at the National Women's Law Center.

"It really is about targeting a group of people - you know, dehumanizing trans people and stripping them of protections - and not doing anything to address the actual gender inequities in sports," she said.

The Republicans are using us as a smokescreen, as a distraction as they cut funding to education and bring down education to the level of "Reading, 'Riting, & 'Rithermatic" they don't want an educated  "proletariat."

We callout the man behind the curtain that is using us to distract from the real issues. Here in Connecticut last week the Republicans had a press conference (You want to guess the topic? Yup... you guessed it. A call nation wide went out this week we are going after trans athletes and Poof just like that all around the country the Republicans were talking about us!)

Sensing change under Trump, conservatives bring transgender athlete fight back to CT

Greenwich Times

By Alex Putterman,

May 9, 2025

President Donald Trump has revived a national debate over transgender athletes in sports, threatening a crackdown on states and schools that allow participants to compete based on their gender identity.

Now the issue has arrived, once again, in Connecticut.

At a news conference Thursday afternoon at the state Capitol, advocates and Republican lawmakers criticized Connecticut officials for maintaining an inclusive stance toward transgender athletes. Current state policy allows all athletes to compete according to the gender they identify with.

"Biological men do not belong in women's sports," said Peter Wolfgang, executive director of the Family Institute of Connecticut, which organized the event. "Why is this not more of a bipartisan issue in the state of Connecticut?"

I have crossed paths with Mr. Wolfgang before, his organization has been against every LGBTQ+ legislation that has been proposed. There have about a half a dozen anti-trans athlete bill this year proposed and zero made it out of committee,

 The news conference drew more than a dozen Republican legislators and several prominent advocates from Connecticut and beyond, many of whom wore pink stickers reading "Save Girls Sports." Several speakers went beyond the realm of athletics, however, claiming gender is immutable and that transgender people should not be permitted to transition at all.

Stop and think about this... The Journal of Athletic Training reported, "The overall injury burden associated with volleyball is significant. More than 60 000 injuries were estimated as being sustained by female athletes competing in high school volleyball annually." And they are parading out one girl student athlete who got hit in the head! What about protecting the other 59,999 girl volleyball players who got hit in the head!

This is nothing but a political distraction at our expense.