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The Maine Senate voted against Bill LD 1134, which would have kept trans -male athletes on girls for girls for girls.
The rejection occurs in the middle of the continuous resistance of the Democratic Directorate of the State against the executive decree of President Donald Trump “men out of women’s sport”, which dates back to February.
The United States Ministry of Justice has launched legal action against the State for refusing to sign an agreement to keep the sports of girls only for women. A federal judge set a date of trial on April 1, 2026 on Tuesday for this trial.
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The eminent republican legislator of Maine, Laurel Libby, which has become a central figure of the battle of the State on the issue, criticized the Democratic majority for not having adopted the bill in an article on X Friday.
“It is clear that the biological reality and the will of Maine have no impact on the decisions taken in the Legislative Assembly of Maine, while the Democratic majority has just voted to allow biological men to continue to dominate in the sports of girls and invade the spaces of girls,” wrote Libby.
Athletes and female rights activists lobby so that the state has adopted bills prohibiting trans -sports athletes for months.
At the beginning of May, several girls’ athletes paraded in August to testify before the state legislature supporting three bills on the issue, including LD114 and similar invoices LD 868 and LD 233.
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“”[Democrats] Certainly asked much fewer questions to the people with whom they did not agree that the people with whom they agreed, and you could say that they did not feel so compassionate, “said the student athlete of almost Isle, Lucy Cheney.” They became emotional at the time [pro-trans speakers] Shared, and it seemed to be really dealing with them, and they wanted to support them, and that did not feel as much as they wanted to hear our side. “”
Cheney’s teammate Carrlyn Buck said that when the Democrats came to them with questions, they seemed “hostile”.
“They just seemed more hostile to our testimonies when they asked questions,” said Buck. “It was that a lot of questions were harassing.”
The DoJ accused the state of “flouting openly and challenging the anti-discrimination federal law by applying policies that force girls to compete with boys in sports competitions designated exclusively for girls”, according to a complaint obtained by PK Press Club Digital.
Governor Janet Mills, the Maine Ministry of Education and the Association of Maine Directors strongly supported the continuation of allowing the inclusion trans into the sports of girls through the State, citing the Maine Human Rights Act as the previous one to determine the sexual eligibility.
Meanwhile, two Maine school districts have already taken matters into their own hands, because MSAD n ° 70 and RSU n ° 24 have each moved to modify their own policies in order to keep the trans athletes outside the sports of girls.
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% agreed that it was “fair 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.
But so far, the governor has remained firm to oppose Trump on the issue, even at the cost of legal costs funded by taxpayers.
“I am happy to go to court and plead the questions that are raised in this court complaint,” Mills told journalists in April.
