A transgender-identifying male, competing under the name “Katie,” from Cumberland’s Greely High School, came out on top in the girls’ pole vault competition on Monday during the Maine Indoor Track Meet at Bates College.
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The student is a biological male who previously competed in boys’ pole-vaulting as a mid-level athlete. Since identifying as a girl, “Katie” has been allowed to compete against female students.
At Monday’s meet, “Katie” jumped 11 feet, a mediocre score for boys, but within just one inch of Maine’s girls’ pole-vault champion, who set an 11-foot, one-inch record last year at the National Pole Vault Summit.
He jumped a full eight inches higher than the second-place winner among the girls.
At the same competition, the winning boy jumped 14 feet, while Katie’s score would have put him in 10th place alongside the other boys.
The student’s participation in the event came in opposition to an executive order issued by President Donald Trump earlier this month threatening to pull federal funds from schools that allow males to compete in women’s sports.
The Maine Wire previously spoke to a Scarborough High School coach, Allen Cornwall, who recused himself from judging an earlier pole-vault competition because he objects to the school’s continuing to allow “Katie” to compete against girls despite President Trump’s executive action at the federal level.
“They’re [“Katie”] going to be the conference champion, quote unquote girls Conference champion. They’ll be the quote unquote girls state champion for the class B athlete. And these girls that have been competing for years, working towards this, are just being sidelined, and it’s really disgusting,” said Cornwall.
While Maine schools continue to allow transgender-identifying males to compete against girls for the time being, it remains to be seen whether they will be able to continue the practice should it cause them to lose federal funding.
No words. Despicable, hopefully karma will catch up with this thing sooner than later.
Amazing ain’t it, wonder how the young lady who came in “second place” feels about this? Once again a hard working young lady has her dream dashed by a boy with issues. Shame on the DOE!
Ridiculous. It’s illegal. This story has to find its way to the President, or at least Fox news.
This kid needs the living shit beat out of him .
Unfair Unfair Unfair
This queers parents should be ashamed .
I’m sure their community despises them . Good ! I hope so .
What a horrible thing to do to your neighbors .
Unfair
what do all these record setting “female” athletes and a good lookin chick in thailand have in common.? they both boys!
Maine needs to change the way they counsel these kids with mental illness… a bit of God and prayer wouldn’t hurt either. My heart goes out to them.
Here’s the deal Mr “ Katie “ . You let us cut your dick off and we’ll let you pretend to be a girl .
That sounds fair doesn’t it .
I cannot imagine how low my life would need to be to write something so heinous about a kid. Without any actual evidence, other than a claim and some yellow circles, you feed the rapid dogs someone from a marginalized community. Listen to them festering with hate and ignorance. This isn’t about protecting women. How pathetic of a country we’ve become. People need to open more books, especially about the things they have so many strong feelings about.
What the fuck is wrong with you people? Does he sling around his fully functioning schlong around the girls trying to change too?
Why are girls putting up with this? Just say no
NOT Trans Identifying Male you mean self-absorbed loser male not good enough to compete with boys that has no self-respect….
Girls you should not have competed. You should have ganged up and kicked the ever-loving dog snot out of him.
John/”Katie” (no last name?) is a spineless coward for not competing with the men, and all students and teachers at Greely should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this and condoning this to happen. His mental health needs addressing.
Learn Something :
How twisted and sick YOU must be to support and condone this kind of behavior .
THIS IS ABOUT PROTECTING GIRLS AND WOMEN .
YOU are the pathetic one for thinking otherwise .
Climb back under the rock that you came out from under .
You are as much of this “ trans “ problem as the boy who wants to beat the girls .
What are you all getting off on, bullying a literal child?
Always the victim . It’s your next card .
If right and common sense won’t win on the issue , then play the victim .
“These people” would prefer that you refer to them as transvestites, privately and in public, thank you.
If the “ physically stronger” taking advantage of , and beating the “ physically weaker “, is not an
accepted definition of “ bullying” , then I don’t know what is . Wow .
The bully’s accuse the bullied and then instantly become the victims .
It’s a mental illness . There can be no other explanation for it .
It needs to be called out for what it is . Insanity .
That puts the pole into pole vaulter!
The “real” girl he beat out was a senior year at Levitt high school. She should have been the state champion for girls pole vault. Now that’s been ripped away from her by the states unlawful decision to ignore an executive order. I hope Greeley loses all federal funding for doing so.
My son was there with my granddaughter as she was running track.
Pure insanity that this is still being allowed to happen.
These comments and this article are vial. This is a child – 18 years old or not – there are plenty of other girls just as tall and capable – leave this kid alone, you’re all in need of counsel (whether that be from your god or a therapist) to speak about a child this way. PS hiding behind your screen name is cowardice!
Claw back all the funds they’ve already received since Trump’s Inauguration at least, if not back further.
And file perversion charges against those involved.
Demand the “winner” pose for a naked photo to document heshe’s gender. If he can go naked in front of all the other competitors in the locker room, he can go naked in front of the court. He’s already been naked in front of the “public.”
There needs to be some sort of father’s group organized to block the doors to the locker rooms, bathrooms, etc, to prevent the triggering and microaggressions being forced upon their daughters.
Lawsuits should be filed for indecent exposure. In a locker room, you expose your physical body, not the inner workings of your so called mind.
The crying game: “this marginalized community.”
How marginalized can you be if changing a single letter on a piece of paper neutralizes that claim.
Which one of Maine’s NGO’s is behind this push, probably offering to sponsor legal support?
It’s sick that Greely supports this nonsense. This guy is not part of any “marginalized community”. He is part of a mental health crisis supported by the mainstream and social media.
Hope he snags his stinking balls on something and rips those useless nuts off. Is he stuffing his nuts and hose up his smelly hairy butt crack? Maybe he crashes down hard enough to smash the whole lot for good. These are not mentally fit nor should be accepted as normal.
Talking this way about a high school student is actually disgusting behavior. Most of these people commenting are fully grown adults. Let her live she’s literally just competing in a sport is it really that deep?
Seriously, these are kids people, have some respect for fellow humans and their privacy.
Does it still have its dick?
Find something better to do with your time than harassing trans kids. You’re part of the reason why trans kids kill themselves. Are you really okay with that?
Go connect with your community. Find some hobbies. Do something else.
Totally disgusting! Compete with your own gender!!!
Fuck you sick libs for defending this bullshit i see you on Rmaine2 you sick fucks shouldn’t be within 1000 feet of any school! Cry harder but sane people will prevail you grooming monsters
Pull your girls out for a season. Let him compete with himself. It will pass, but don’t make your girls subservient to this kind of demeaning situation. They don’t need to participate, smile or clap. Let them be girls and enjoy the year off. You should call the dog and senators and congress and make this an issue. Tell them to pull the funding and sue the state.
Here’s another idea, eliminate women’s sports since it’s just about participation, and let all children play in one sports catagory
I’m sure the President knows now , being Laurel libby was on Fox last night with Laura Ingraham. I hope this school and every other school that allows this , Loses their Federal Funding.
freak
Not sure why the girl’s team and the parents of the girls on the team are so accepting of seeing a male steal awards. People need to start demanding this nonsense to stop immediately. Citizens need to start finding the courage to express their outrage over the sidelining of female athletes. Clear women’s rights organizations are compromised.
This boy identifies as a girl…Maine’s Leftist Senator Susan Collins identifies as a Republican…seems self awareness to be a weakness throughout the state.
They all want to have the surg and take medication to transition even though They say that sex doesn’t define their gender so how does removing them affirm it? Makes no sense to me. Where are all the true feminist? They should be pissed about this
Any entity that awards prizes, scholarships, etc. for athletic events in Maine should start awarding duplicate prizes for: overall, women, and cis-women. There is a complicated fair formula that can allow some of the prizes to not be awarded. For example if a cis-woman wins the overall first prize then women’s or cis-women’s first prizes would not be awarded and affected contestants would be considered for second prize etc.
I am a progressive liberal and despise Trump. Anyone can identify as anything they want….go to the prom…get married…I’m happy to use any pronoun anyone wants me to use. BUT science shows that going through male puberty gives you a strength advantage over cis gender girls, which is simply not fair in sports! Let’s use common sense people and respect science…it’s all we have!
Simply, Wrong.
Most of the comments here are hideous. Cruel, mean, below normal standards of human decency. I remember years ago when conservatives had the same reprehensible public discourse about openly gay folk. You all have mostly learned to hide that now.
The only upside to the public display of your crude behavior is that it does tend to drive society away from the goal you want.
Relax it’s just a MAGA kid proving a point. It’s just sports anyway, white on white “sports” crime that isn’t even a crime, we just trying to afford eggs out here and the little white boys causing little 6th grade girls in Texas to commit suicide by bullying her that they are going to call ICE on her parents and she would end up alone. So Bob, CommonSense, Maine Patriot Woman, Eric H…go eat it and R-E-L-A-X.
Enough with the attack on women’s sports. Who makes these stupid decisions. Oh yeah, politicians. Let’s vote them out and protect our daughters
Katie only vaulted 10’6 at the state class B meet this year.
Could someone please correct Mr. Robinson?
John was never 5th in the boys competition at state meet. He was 10th last year in 2024 at the state meet and vaulted that 11’. He was 5th place at a smaller conference meet and vaulted even higher.
I am seeing articles pop up that are stating John placed 5th at states in 2023. There was no John from Greely in the 2023 state meet results.
The meet results are public.
Thank you,
Isn’t there something in statute that defines “pole” vault? Hey, if he’s a girl, what kind of make-up does he use? Prefer – Tampons or Always? Where is Tonya Harding when you need her? Is he confused about what circumcision really is? He’s going to have a lifetime of pain but not for being trans.
People should call their school districts and get this changed. It’s that simple.