As the girls rounded the corner into the last stretch before the finish line, I couldn’t help myself: “Go, girls, go, girls!” I yelled as they sprinted and jostled for first place. Their feet pounding and red cheeks flaring, they ran hard because, on this cold fall day, the State Championship was up for grabs in Belfast, Maine.
However, something was out of place in this scenario, and it wasn’t me.
I stood there watching as a woman who had vigorously competed in high school sports, relishing the competition and the banter the girls on my teams had during practice and on the field. It wasn’t the girls who were out of place either. They ran like the wind and came in all ages, shapes, and sizes from every corner of Maine to compete.
What was out of place during this track meet? It was the boy.
The boy who was running alongside the top girls with his pigtails flapping in the air was crushing the competition in front of me. It was the boy who was snuffing out the dreams and diminishing the hard work these girls had put in for years. This boy was being lauded for his athletic prowess as he competed against young girls who never had the testosterone that had built his lean and strong muscles. This young man, who only last year had run with the boys and performed poorly, was now (obviously) dominating the girls’ track championships. This boy was the one out of place.
Just ten years ago, you would’ve thought: where are the outraged feminists?
Where are the women who marched to allow women to excel in their fields, who screamed from the rooftops, “Women are special and deserve the opportunities to succeed in their own right”? Shockingly, these feminists are now the ones declaring that women shut their mouths, that we ignore the truths of physical womanhood, and that we let anyone who declares they identify as a woman “be” a woman.
Any feminist who now holds the once obvious belief that women and men are biologically distinct, and that those biological differences necessitate sex-specific sporting events, is now derided with the pejorative term, T.E.R.F. — aka Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist.
This diminishing of girlhood didn’t begin on the athletic fields. The loss of preciousness and protection of our young women became pervasive in our state back when the Maine legislature added “gender identity” to the Maine Human Rights Act in 2019. The definition in the statute of “gender identity” means the gender-related identity, appearance, mannerisms, or other gender-related characteristics of an individual, regardless of the individual’s assigned sex at birth.
Based on this ideological view of human nature and human sexuality, new policies began to weave their way into the rules governing our government-run schools. The further implementation of the ACAAA (Transgender and Gender Expansive Students) policy has brought gender identity into all aspects of school life. The ACAAA allows an “anything goes” approach when someone chooses to identify as a woman. In schools that have adopted this radical philosophy, a boy can now use the girls’ bathroom, join the girls’ sports team, and walk naked in the girls’ locker room simply by declaring he is a girl. It doesn’t matter if a student, a mom, or a concerned citizen protests this insanity because the School Board, Superintendents, and teachers can simply fall back on the “law” and ignore very real concerns.
More strength has now been added to the ruling class’s contempt for our girls since the Biden-Harris Administration officially changed Title IX protections to include those who identify as whatever sex they choose. Gone are the days when Title IX was used to give opportunities; now it takes them away. What bitter irony that a federal rule once invoked to elevate women and girls has now become a tool to allow biological males to invade and dominate female spaces (and races).
I have realized that the true feminists, the women who are speaking up for and protecting girls, are myself and the conservative women around me. We stand appalled that a young man is allowed to crush girl athletes and steal championships from our daughters. The feminists are now the women who show up to the school board meetings and get called bigots or haters only because they want our girls to be seen as the unique people they are. These conservative feminists are boldly declaring that girls are not a product of the clothes or makeup they put on, but are in fact, biologically, emotionally, and spiritually born into womanhood.
I read feminist material in college and found much of it too radical, now I am shocked to find I am the radical one because I want our girls to succeed without having to compete athletically against confused young men.
Where are the feminists?
We are right here and we won’t stop fighting. “Go girls, Go girls!”
State Rep. Katrina Smith (R-Palermo) has served one term representing House District 62, which includes the towns of Windsor, China, Hibberts Gore Township, Somerville, and Palermo.
“… regardless of the individual’s assigned sex at birth.”
Is the phrase above part of the definition in the Maine Human Rights Act, or the construct of the author of this article? If it is part of the Act, it should be in quotation marks. If it was written this way by the author, then I have an objection, thus: When we use radical trans-woke idiocy in our own work, we support their ideas, whether or not intentionally.
I was never assigned a sex at birth. The doctor observed that I had female parts and marked that observation on my birth certificate. It was not his job or prerogative to decide for me, or for my parents, what sex I was. Doctors (ethical ones, anyway) do not assign an infant with one sex or the other (of which there ARE only two) – they observe the obvious – if it has an “innie,” it’s a girl; if it has an “outie,” it’s a boy – and mark the appropriate box on the form.
I refuse to employ the language of the woke. I hope that others who haven’t succumbed to this nonsense will follow suit. The woke will no longer have control over us when we stop playing their games by their rules.
Amen and thank you! It’s time for the adults in the room to band together against this insane assault on Maine’s young female population.
The science does not support this sick movement. Look up the 2024 Dr.Hilary Cass Review Final Report (UK), an independent review of Gender Identity Services for children. This report has been a catalyst for Western Europe to pull back from its radical gender identity policies.
The objections need to come from the students themselves since some adult teachers and parents have been totally indoctrinated with wokeness for political reasons. Depending on who you listen to, being woke (or politically correct previously) means “aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issue especially of issues of racial and social Justice.” Supporting the BLM movement is a recent example.
All that jargon is nothing but code words for Marxism and the number one tool to promote Marxism is the breakdown of the nuclear family. Namely, elevating single parent households, promoting abortions, same-sex marriage, men can birth babies, pornography books in grade school libraries and the most ridiculous of all, the trans-gender movement.
It’s necessary for female students especially to become more like Riley Gaines or the insanity will continue as it has in boxing at the Olympics this year. Marxists are very clever and know exactly what they’re doing, but remember this bigger picture statement from David Horowitz: “The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the [Marxist] revolution.”
Sad to say.. it’s not just the Liberal women, it’s the Social Justice warriors and Social worker “groomers”..even paid by the state counselors and the Foster care system shoving this maddening agenda down our throats. It’s hard for anyone who is a believer in our Lord, our God under any circumstances to accept this stupidity. The justice will come.
It really is shocking that women who call themselves feminists are silent.
Especially when you see beating up women is now an Olympic sport.
Silence is consent.
It really shows the hypocrisy of leftists.
Me Infidel is correct .
The students themselves need to fix this .
Lesson time .
When I was in high school in the Maine during the sixties , if a guy tried to do this to the girls , we’d have taken him out back and taught him different . Simple Fix . He’d have to quit it , or find a new school ( a whole new town ) to go to. Period.
Sure there were ” effeminate ” guys back then, but we didn’t bother them and they didn’t bother us , but they knew full well not to rub their queer lifestyle in our community’s face .
Live and let live but don’t ask me to celebrate your foolish parade .
Gender Determination in Competitive Sports:
The current Olympic to-do over the female boxing competition is embarrassing, if only for the mindless statements by relevant officials, such as using a passport to verify gender. Not to mention the tolerance of the “Global Community” for bizarro-level violations of scientific truth.
I have a suggestion on how to clean things up, all with due attention to the personal privacy of those involved. My suggestion is to make use of two scientifically sound medical procedures, both of which can be performed on identity protected (black hood over the head) subjects behind an examination area with a surrounding waist high curtain that is otherwise in full view of the public and TV cameras.
The medical procedures are the DRE (digital rectal exam), with which many of us are familiar, used to check the presence of and condition of the male prostate. The second is the FFCP (five finger crotch palpation). Both can be performed with the Doctor masked or not, as parties may prefer. With appropriate rubber gloves and lubricant for the DRE. Note that a blind Doctor could do the tests.
The routine is straight-forward. The candidate athlete hands their passport to a monitoring IOC official to check the gender identity shown on the document. The official audibly announces the listed identity to the public and the attending Doctor. Behind the barrier to the exam area, the athlete is directed to drop their shorts.
The Doctor first performs the DRE and announces the result in the form of “Prostate Positive” or “Prostrate Negative.” Following this, the Doctor conducts the FFCP, and declares the outcome as “Male Equipment Positive” or “Male Equipment Negative.” Only those subjects who have Negative results in both tests will be permitted to compete in female sports. Those with one or both tests Positive will be designated male, and if this disagrees with the gender identity on the passport, formal notification of the certified test results will be submitted to the passport issuing authority with a request to change the document and related records accordingly.
There; wasn’t that easy?
The theme song of “Trans-females” is “You make me FEEL LIKE a natural woMAN.”
Parse the words one by one to get the full message.
the main groups promoting gender ideology arent feminists. both male and female progressives have fallen for the fraud of gender ideology. the main groups responsible for implementing gender ideology arent feminists either. seems anytime theres any issue involving females anywhere in the world theres a man somewhere saying “where are the feminists”. in reality these issues were caused by men and their supporters are mostly men. regarding gender ideology, progressives have been duped by 10000 lies promoted by the pharm industry and fetishists. much of it is based on pharm biz billing manual the DSM that lists gender identity as a condition with merit billing. The gender identity section of the DSM is writen by commitee and isnt based on any evidence or studies. the authors are pharm biz reps and fetishists, such as wpath members. one of the authors was found later to have a castration fetish. billionaire attorneys and activists (all male) created the legal frame work for the mens rights movement known as gender ideology. these laws robs the rights and harm vulneeable groups such as women, kids, gays, people with psych issues to benefit white men. feminists have been screaming their lungs out regarding this harmful movement for decades. but no one listened to them. the male dominated tech and media industries drown out their voices and ban their speech.