A Maine high school track and cross country coach published an op-ed Thursday in the Bangor Daily News defending the participation of biological males in girls’ sports.
The author of the op-ed, entitled “There is no place for hatred in running,” is Isaac Vaccaro, a math teacher and head coach of cross country, indoor track and outdoor track at George Stevens Academy in Blue Hill.
Vaccaro, who has coached high school cross country and track for five years, wrote that he has “seen adults publicly humiliate and harass trans athletes at meets. I have seen adults cyberbully trans athletes, facilitated by the posts of news outlets and state representatives.”
“Student athletes do not deserve to be treated this way,” Vaccaro wrote, adding that “It’s not all about winning, right?”
“In cross country, the top 30 individuals at the regional meet qualify for the state meet,” Vaccaro wrote. “The girl in 31st place does not blame the 30 girls ahead of her for running too fast; she takes personal accountability for not reaching the qualifying mark.”
Vaccaro argued that the real issues facing girls sports in Maine is plummeting participation, eating disorders and assaults by male coaching staff.
“If we care about the integrity of girls sports, these are the problems to address, not attacking trans girls,” he wrote.
“Trans girls are girls and deserve to compete with girls,” Vaccaro claimed. “They do not, in my experience, threaten cis women athletes.”
“If you want to support girls’ high school sports in Maine, attend competitions, volunteer to coach your local program, promote solutions for the real issues threatening girls sports, and most importantly, treat athletes with kindness and respect,” he wrote.
Vaccaro’s view diverge from those of Greely High School’s girls’ track coach Allen Cornwall, who boycotted a state meet because he objected to a biological male competing there.
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In recent weeks, Maine has attracted national attention for the Maine Principals’ Association’s policy of forcing female athletes to compete against biological male transgender athletes in sports.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights has found Maine to be in violation of Title IX protections of girls in school sports, after launching an investigation late last month into the Maine Department of Education’s refusal to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order barring transgender athletes from playing on girls’ teams.
Maine Gov. Janet Mills has asserted and doubled-down on her position that banning biological males who identify as females from girls’ sports would violate the Maine Human Rights Act.
In October 2024, the Maine Wire reported on a biological male runner who identifies as female and took first place over a female athlete in the five-kilometer cross country run at Western Maine Conference Championship. The transgender athlete’s performance in that race would have placed him 43rd among the male runners.
Last year, The Maine Wire covered the same runner’s fifth-place ranking in the 5k at the Maine XC Festival of Champions. In the same race in 2022, prior to his transition, he competed with the boys and ranked 206th.
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This guys a teacher? His husband needs to bitch slap this twat.
Military justice, no trial, no attorneys, no two ways about it; blindfolded, put up against a wall, and shot.
this country began with the military, if you remember
If you flunk science class you can still be a track coach.
No sir, coach. They are not real girls at all.
‘You can out lipstick on a pig…. but it is still a pig’
A male competing against a female is still a male… the majority of males can outrun, out lift, out throw most females. Democrats tell us to follow the science except where it suits them.
Someone should explain the facts of life to the track coach: “The volume of adult female lungs is typically 10-12% smaller than that of males who have the same height and age.”
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/10737979_Sex_Differences_in_Thoracic_Dimensions_and_Configuration
That is a fact!
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Where did this guy go to school?
Isaac Vaccaro should lobby the Boston Marathon Committee to entirely eliminate the woman’s division for the running of the Boston Marathon.
Common sense. Boys/mens xx body’s competing against girls/womens xy body’s in sports is condoning violence. Violence in competitive sports is not fair play. The Qs and Ts do not belong in the same category as the Ls and Gs. What exactly are we proving to society by encouraging THIS violence against girls/women in competitive sports by allowing these psychologically and pharmaceutically damaged boys/men to violently and unfairly beat them into submission with zero recourse? What is this?
Gender dysphoria is a mental illness that should be treated, NOT celebrated or exploited !
All those that facilitate child mutilation should be jailed and impoverished !
Fire Him!!!!!
There needs to be a huge Exorcism in the state of Maine…
No such thing as “trans girls”. These “girls” have d*nks which means they are males, period regardless of someones fairy tale beliefs.
I feel.sorry for any girl.that lost her place on the team because of a guy. I would encourage all girls on the team to quit, your coach could care less about you. And it is very sad that even their parents do not seem to advocate for their daughters.
they are not real girls men dressed as girls,, only 2 sexes. this coach needs to be fired.
George Stevens Academy, another one of those diverse schools ran by nut job liberals . Nothing to see here folks.
Perhaps the very definition of a person believing absurdities (Males are females) and committing atrocities (forcing girls/women to get beaten up emotionally and sometimes physically assaulted during competitions – Payton McNabb comes to mind, by statistically more powerful males). And the accusations sound eerily familiar? Isaac Vaccaro following the D’s golden rule from their bible ‘rules for radicals’? “Accuse the opposition of doing exactly what you are doing“. Perhaps this article has helped us to learn who the real haters are?
I’m guessing that this “ coach “ is a queer . Right !.
That’s the problem with suicidal empathy, everything is a feeling. It has NOTHING to do with feelings. It is pure science. Women will get hurt and women will continuously lose to men. Be whatever you want to be..do not force everyone else to participate in your delusions. This guy says no place for hatred. It’s not hate it’s science.
Why not make a trans catergory and they win all the time? These I have to have a trophy all the time kids can enter that group..
I didn’t even need to read the name of the coach to know it was a man saying this. He’s probably a closet trans himself. Or, likes to look at the boys dressed like girls.
No way in hell my daughter would play for this coach.
I am finding it dificult to decide…should we fire this teacher first and then tar and feather him, or vice-versa.
Hey coach, do these “girls” get a prostate exam before being allowed to play?