A trans-identifying biological male is expected to dominate at the New Hampshire Division II championship track meet this Sunday, where he will be competing against girls.
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Maelle Jacques, a current Sophomore at Kearsarge Regional High School in Sutton, New Hampshire, became the subject of national controversy when he took away numerous first-place awards, with many parents calling his sweeping victories unfair since he was competing against girls.
Officials at the government-run school and advocates for transgender ideology, however, defended letting Jacques compete against girls.
“We believe that limiting access to any activity violates our core mission and vision, which are grounded in supporting every student and student-athlete’s right to pursue their goals and interests,” said Winfried Feneberg, Kearsarge school district superintendent, in a statement provided to the New Boston Post.
The New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association (NHIAA) officially allows students to compete in their preferred category regardless of their sex.
Last year, as a freshman, Jacques took multiple first place awards, particularly dominating in the high-jump and the 1600-meter run, taking first place awards in both categories.
Jacques currently holds the number one spot in the whole of the girls’ Division II high-jump category, and is the only person competing in that category who jumped over five feet during regular season contests last year.
Jacques’ victories have continued into 2024, most recently on February 3, where Jacques took first in the high-jump once again.
The Division II championship meet is scheduled for Sunday, February 11, and will be held at the Plymouth State University, in Plymouth, New Hampshire.
If Jacques were to compete in the high jump against the other boys, he would rank below the student placing 16th in the division, and would not approach the first place spot, which is held by a student whose record is nearly a foot higher than Jacques’.
As the number of high school students identifying as transgender has increased sharply in recent years, the issue of whether male athletes should be allowed to compete against female athletes is surfaced in debates over high school and collegiate athletics.
It’s well established that male athletes have significant physical advantages over female athletes, including larger skeletal muscles, larger hearts and lungs, higher bone density, and elevated levels of testosterone — all of which gives males massive advantages in athletic competition
Recent attempts in Maine to pass legislation protecting female athletes from male competition have proved unsuccessful.
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In January, Senate Republican Leader Trey Stewart (R-Aroostook) proposed a bill to create a legal basis for preventing biological males from competing in women’s sports after he heard complaints from the parents of a girl who was forced to compete against a biological male.
That bill eventually failed with unanimous opposition from Democrats on the state’s Legislative Council.
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every girl competing needs to throw 2 middle fingers up and walk away ! let him compete himself
This male looser can’t hack life as a guy so he has to cheat to make a name for himself by competing against girls and what really gets my goat is that evidently his libertard parents are just fine with this. I blame the parents as much as society for tolerating this ridiculous nonsense. All events where this looser shows up to should be boycotted by the really girls who want to compete and that is the only way to send a message about how wrong this is.
The girls should boycott every meet that this guy shows up at. If they don’t they are complicit in advancing this distortion of reality. Let him compete against himself. If I were a parent I would prevent my daughter from participating in such a fraud. If we don’t stand up this bs is only going to get worse.
Allagash Beer will be there.
When he runs a race…all the other contestants STAY PUT when the starting gun is fired. See what they do then.
The NH govt hate biological girls and women.
Come on now. Can’t we all just get along and do what the commies tells us to do which is to accept trans people for who they are and to not be judgmental? Trans people have feelings too you know much like the militant LGBTQ folks, full-term abortion activists, the pushers of porn books in school libraries, gay “marriage” and eventually pedophilia. It’s not to destroy the traditional nuclear family, but rather to accept each other as equals in the eyes of God. Oops, I meant the government.