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Maine Democrats Now Want to Mandate LGBTQ Education Even As Schools Risk Funding Loss Over Ongoing Title IX Concerns

Seamus OthotBy Seamus OthotApril 3, 2025Updated:April 4, 202544 Comments2 Mins Read7K Views
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A group of Democrat Maine legislators, headed by Rep. Cheryl Golek (D-Harpswell), introduced a bill on Thursday that would require Maine students to take LGBTQ Studies in order to pass through the public school system.

[RELATED: U.S. DOE Investigates Maine Schools Over Secret Gender Transitions…]

Golek’s bill, LD 1482, drew strong support from her party, bringing in nine co-sponsors, including Rep. Nina Milliken (D-Blue Hill) and Sen. Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Cumberland).

[RELATED: Nina Milliken’s Bill to Abolish Life Sentences in Maine Gets the Death Penalty After Prosecutor Testifies to Gruesome Assault Case…]

As introduced, the bill inserts new language into existing education statutes, mandating LGBTQ+ studies alongside already mandated Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)-inspired courses, such as African American studies, the history of genocide, and Wabanaki studies.

LGBTQ+ studies would be included in both the American history requirement and the Maine studies course, requiring students to learn about LGBTQ+ history across the nation as well as at the state level.

The bill defines LGBTQ+ to include “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and other allied communities.” The consciously woke legislation does not specify what the classes must include.

The Legislature’s Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs will consider the bill, although no date has yet been set for a work session.

LD 1482 appears to be a direct renunciation of President Donald Trump’s January executive order, “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling.”

That order mandated an end to all public school promotion of DEI principles and radical gender ideology, which says a man can become a woman or vice-versa, and encourages a child to take reportedly harmful drugs and undergo irreversible surgeries to appear more like the opposite sex.

If Golek’s bill passes, it could put the Maine Department of Education (MDOE) at an even greater risk of losing federal funds. The MDOE has already lost some federal funding over the state’s refusal to remove transgender-identifying males from high school girls’ sports, thereby violating Title IX anti-discrimination laws.

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Seamus Othot is a reporter for The Maine Wire. He grew up in New Hampshire, and graduated from The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, where he was able to spend his time reading the great works of Western Civilization. He can be reached at [email protected]

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Jimmy Potatoes
Jimmy Potatoes
11 months ago

Hey, here’s an idea, no. What’s next beastiality?

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Knot nice
Knot nice
11 months ago

They would never go for the beastie training because if they did liberal woman would never get a date again. Id rather have a stump trained mule than a liberal woman.

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John B Watkins
John B Watkins
11 months ago

Governor Sanders (née Huckabee) of Arkansas put it corectly when she stated politics are no longer arguments of the left versus the right, but rather crazy versus normal.

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Moz
Moz
11 months ago

Satan will never stop pushing his demonic agenda. How did it all start- We just want our rights. How’s it going now- We want your children and you ain’t gonna stop us.

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Eddie Edwards
Eddie Edwards
11 months ago

Trump needs to stop ALL federal money to Maine .
EVERY penny .
ALL of it .
DO IT NOW OR THIS BS WILL NEVER STOP .

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Janets pooper
Janets pooper
11 months ago

Welp guess public school is out, gross motherfuckers in this state

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Olde Crone
Olde Crone
11 months ago

Welcome to the invincible ignorance of Janet’s Marxist utopia of Babylon Maine.
Society needs to stop bending to the will of the delusional fringe minorities. In an attempt not to OFFEND even one person, we instead choose to offend all others.
Transexuals are mocking women and girls. Those displaying autogynephelia
(research that fetish) become sexually aroused wearing women’s clothing and hanging out in women’s private spaces.
They are sex addicts with little impulse control. Others dream of the desire to defile purity, you know, pedophiles. The TQ+ does not belong in the same category as LGB.
Diversity is not our strength, it lowers wages, marginalizes our culture, increases crime and drug abuse, overfills hospitals and clinics, ruins our schools, consumes our taxes, tightens our laws, restricts our children, dumbs down society, overwhelms the welfare system and calls you racist.
Please stop financing this horror.

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Sarah J
11 months ago

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Neecee
Neecee
11 months ago

What is LGBTQ curriculum? What does this have to education. They are already failing at schools now, but want to add this craziness

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Gardiner Schneider
Gardiner Schneider
11 months ago

Golek is queer as a three dollar bill and is shacked up with another women. As with all the queers of the many, many letters, she wants to “normalize” her queerness by teaching our children to be queer as well.

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Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc
11 months ago

According to the 2025 Reading is Fundamental (RIF) report, 74% of Maine 4th grade students are not reading at the proficient level. So, the bottom line in our shameful school system is to insure our kids are trans literate but reading illiterate. Dumb ass teaching, if you ask me. Nothing here to hang your hat on…blatantly liable. What say you?

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beachmom
beachmom
11 months ago

They’ll have to change the names of all the schools in the state.
Something like, Portland Public Grooming Schools

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patriot
patriot
11 months ago

NEVER AGAIN… Time for homeschooling people…No to gay sex ed, no to trans whatever, no to sex with animals, no to story time with drag queens…. NO, NO, NO ,you idiots. Leave our kids alone.

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axylos
axylos
11 months ago

What is wrong with this Communist-Socialist-DemocRATS? Have they not destroyed Maine enough? If the people of Maine vote this sick, twisted, and evil people back into office in 2026 then Mainers deserves everything they get.

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Bingo
Bingo
11 months ago

Disgusting, the grooming by public schools has to stop. So sad there are zero teachers willing to protect your children, let alone teach them.

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the great taking
the great taking
11 months ago

small piece of a big picture…. these patsy dems are being used to destroy the middle class. they want to tax us so we own nothing…. great reset is in full swing! by 2030 half the population will be dead (thru vacines and war) and you will be happy because ur alive… but you will own nothing, live in a 15 min city… things have to rapidly change for it all to come into effect… watch how fast they do! we have gone over the edge of the cliff and most of us haven’t realised we are falling….

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Ironmike
Ironmike
11 months ago

When i went to school the priorities of my teachers were to teach us to read,write, and do math. The standards were high. The teachers did their job and did it well in my school district. When kids graduate now in my small town they speak gibberish,cannot write a complete sentence,and have a hard time doing simple math. The school district does not want parents near the school or at board meetings. It is a good ol boy system of hiring relatives. When we go to vote on our school budget at the town office the question put forth is ” Do you want to approve the school budget? Yes or No. We are not provided with any kind of budget unless we request it. We are paying approximately $21,000 dollars per student per year for dumb down education. Approximately 15 kids per classroom in the high school. Now they want to add this TRANS brainwashing, and LGBTQ plus. Probably going to make it a college course requirement. It was bad enough suffering through health class and sex education when i was in school. The state of Maine has become a pisshole with homolunatics whose brains bounce around like a BB in a boxcar running the show. Say goodbye to federal money and and hello to the doubling of propery taxes.

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mainer
mainer
11 months ago

Remember when the agenda was “what goes on in the privacy of your bedroom is no ones business”? NOW, it is mandatory training of your children to force them and you to grant them special rights while they groom your children and dance half naked and expose themselves in the classroom!

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Homer
Homer
11 months ago

Same group which thinks increasing mandatory public teacher minimum pay will solve a teacher shortage. News flash, these indoctrination philosophy principles are what shrinks the public teacher pool, you can’t just force them all to teach this crap. Why is it so many LBGTQ plus xyz whatever people infiltrate the legislature and government here? It’s because they can’t maintain real jobs outside of state government, and media like the PPH and local news promote this stuff as normal.

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billyjoebob
billyjoebob
11 months ago

I am officially embarrassed to call myself a Maine resident. Might not be for much longer if we don’t get rid of this crap.

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Roger Grant
Roger Grant
11 months ago

These will quickly turn into very expensive decisions.

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Richard
Richard
11 months ago

Can u imagine coming home w your report card and have to explain to your parents…I can’t move on in school this year because I failed Lgbtq+ ….what is happening????

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kathy s
kathy s
11 months ago

STOP the indoctrination already. Look where it’s led…a state rep having her FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS violated!!
THAT case was heard yesterday in Rhode Island! Wgme covered it; I’m VERY DISAPPOINTED Mainewire hasn’t. Yet!?

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Bingo
Bingo
11 months ago

Now you know they do not want transparency, the parents to know how the kids are being harmed by the perverted public education system in Maine.

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Boxcar
Boxcar
11 months ago

Dear grandpa, thought you might like to know I’m getting straight A’s in all my classes but because I failed my mid term in my LGBTQ class because I wouldn’t let Bobby cornhole me, it lowered my chance of making the honor roll. love, Michael

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Boxcar
Boxcar
11 months ago

Here’ is Cheryl Golak, a man on a mission to recruit more people to his team.
https://emergeamerica.org/candidate-qa-cheryl-golek/

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Jays been digging
Jays been digging
11 months ago

Why do normal Mainers have to have this crap shoved down our throats?
A better idea the queers and trannies need to go back in the closet.

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Eeddyedward
Eeddyedward
11 months ago

Completely absurd for public schools, maybe teach this crap in college, children don’t need their minds messed up even more by leftist Marxist teachers with blue hair and a nose ring! C’mon man!

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oncebigbob
oncebigbob
11 months ago

Not one reason a CHILD needs to learn about LGBT35TES8TT, BS! Our kids can’t read, do math without a cell phone or tell time if the clock has hands, but they know boys can have periods and babies and it’s a good thing to be a bot wanting to be a girl. The schools have gone crazy!

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USMCWARRIOR
USMCWARRIOR
11 months ago

The only way the LGBTxyz crowd can propagate is through indoctrination. And if their indoc is successful it acts as a de facto legitimacy test for their having chosen to succumb to their base nature.

Face it; Public Education is an obstruction through which you cannot pass.

Adopt the Principles of Maneuver Warfare; Your Mission is to raise your kids. That doesn’t require defeating every obstacle along the way. Skirt this demonic entity and take back your responsibility and HOME SCHOOL!!!

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Despicable Maine
Despicable Maine
11 months ago

The hypocrites will never give up. It’s all about control

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Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc
11 months ago

Hey, Parents, this is THE hill. Collectively take your stand now! Collectively speak up now! Collectively remove your kids from this corrupt school system now! The message would be strong and swift…no kids on school to teach, no schools open to teach until the administration turns it right. Just sayn

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Brian
Brian
11 months ago

Maine needs a reality check! Its time to open our mental health facilities back up so people have a place to go besides our government!

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patriot1
patriot1
11 months ago

Wow ! Just when I thought it couldn’t get any stupider I made on a prior post .. I guess I’ll be eating those words, maybe it’s time to pack this state in I have a grandson going to this perverted States School. Enough is enough … So SAD .. Changing governors won’t change a lot you need to change people’s heart and minds a long term fix. Need to stop sitting on our hands and call these freaking perverted goofballs out ..

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Bingo
Bingo
11 months ago

Maybe we could have the Bible taught in school to offset the LGB grooming going as we speak.

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Paco
Paco
11 months ago

Support any Democrat who voted against it . These are on many cases educated suburban women .

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Pirate John
Pirate John
11 months ago

These people are so dumb that they don’t even care about the people anymore (who knows if they ever did). They have their heads so far up their butts that they are promoting things that are straight up evil. What’s next, Bill Clinton teaching sex Ed?

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Steven Kingerooo
Steven Kingerooo
11 months ago

All this would end if the Jesuits were allowed to conduct anal/genital inspections and those who are irregular removed from society. It’s simple to stop lbgtq. Simple.

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Frank Fantastic
Frank Fantastic
11 months ago

Let the Liberals Double Down, lose badly to reality then double down again. I’m very much enjoying their acts of desperation as their party and existence implodes.

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Angel
Angel
11 months ago

This is just crazy. Why do adults have to teach kids about their sexuality, let them be freaking kids. Maine is getting out of control thanks Governor mills……for destroying my granddaughters and all young girls and I do mean girls dreams….unreal you need to wake up and realize we are in maine to get away or stay away….from crazy stuff going on in those big over populated states….you want to have ideas take them elsewhere just my opinion.

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Doug
Doug
11 months ago

Fuck you !! rainbow freaks!!

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dts
dts
11 months ago

There goes another $50 million!!

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Mike H
Mike H
11 months ago

Mainers need to take their state back, now!

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Leslie
Leslie
11 months ago

As born n raised in Maine,
How the h ell, do these dozen or so in Augusta push their evil , right straight out of he ll evil woke agenda?
Real Maine citizens need to stand up, petition them all out of Augusta.

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