A Maine’s school district is moving to comply with the current federal definition of title IX and the ban on organic athletes for male sports for girls, while the government of the State is fighting to allow trans inclusion.
The MSAD # 70 school board voted unanimously on Monday evening to comply with title IX, “recognizing only two sexes – a biological and biological woman and that all private spaces are separated by biological sex.”
Superintendent MSAD # 70, Tyler Putnam, told PK Press Club Digital that because of this vote, he is now responsible for modifying district policies to prevent Trans athletes from participating in girls sports.
“The movement directs me to rewrite our policies to adhere to the movement. It is my interpretation that the school board will seek to approve policies that align biological sex on their specific sports teams, that is to say that organic males will not be approved with other organic men and the same for organic women,” said Putnam.
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MSAD # 70 is based in Hodgdon in the County of Aroostook. He is the most northern county of the State and voted for President Donald Trump by a margin of 18% in the November elections. The county also voted for two senators of republican state and seven republican representatives of the Chamber of State.
Now, the County’s school district will be on the side of Trump and its republican legislators in the current battle on the inclusion of trans athletes in girls’ sports.
Putnam told PK Press Club Digital that the district had no communication with the state authorities, notably the Attorney General, the Maine Ministry of Education (MDOE) or the main association of Maine (MPA) on the recent vote.
“We have not had communication on this specific movement. Our council, similar to many people from Maine, followed back and forth communication between the federal government and the state. We hope that the two parties work together to help support local school districts like us,” said Putnam.
“With the increase in educational costs, this is a time when we have to work with each other and not. The board of directors and the n ° 1 priority of our staff is to provide our students with a positive impact on their future in our great state and our country. I am proud to work and benefit from our management decisions that are taken at the local level, of our students.”
The representative of the state of Maine Tracy Quint, one of the Republicans who represents the County of Aroostook, congratulated MSAD # 70 for his vote.
“I am encouraged to see our local community of Maine defend our students by maintaining title IX protections. Ensuring equity, security and private life for each student must always come before politics. I urge other school districts through the State to follow this example and to prioritize the well-being of all their students,” said PK Press Club Digital.
PK Press Club Digital contacted the Maine Prosecutor General’s Office and the Governor Janet Mills office to comment.
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The state is currently faced with immense federal pressure to comply with the executive order of Trump of February to ban the trans athletes of the sports of girls and women, but firmly challenged order under the direction of Mills.
Maine was referred to the Ministry of Justice twice in the last month and faces a freezing of federal funding by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Maine officials filed a complaint against the USDA last Monday in response to the agency’s decision to freeze funding.
A federal judge ruled on Friday that the USDA “was immediately to decade and release to the state of Maine any federal funding which he frozen or failed or refused to pay because of the alleged state of the state of Maine to comply with the requirements of title IX”.
The state gap on trans inclusion was then highlighted when the representative of the state of Maine, Laurel Libby, identified a trans athlete in a social media position which won a pole jump competition for girls for Greely High School in February.
Libby was censored for her article on social networks on the premise, she identified a minor by her name and with a photo. However, Libby has since submitted legal action to have overturned, arguing that the Trans athlete had already been identified by other media before his post. The trial was tried before a district court of Rhode Island.
In addition to the incident involving pole vaulter in Greely High School, other cases affected several girls through the state that had to compete with and share the locker room with organic men.
Maine Teen Cassidy Carlisle told PK Press Club Digital on the way she was to share a wardrobe with a trans student at college. She then had to compete with another Trans athlete in Nordic skiing last year.
“The defeat that comes with this at that time is heartbreaking,” said Carlisle. “I’m just in shock in a way. I didn’t believe it. … I didn’t think it happened to me.”
A survey on The American Parents Coalition noted that out of approximately 600 registered voters from Maine, 63% said that the participation of school sports should be based on organic sex, and 66% have agreed that it was “just to restrict the sports of women to organic women”.
The survey also revealed that 60% of residents would support a voting measure limiting participation In Sports of women and girls at Biological women. This included 64% of the self -employed and 66% of parents with children under the age of 18.
