A Republican state legislator who bravely sponsored bills to keep boys out of women’s sports and bathrooms quickly found out how to raise hackles in Maine’s woke ecosphere, but the wilderness guide isn’t backing down.
Rep. Elizabeth Caruso (R-Caratunk) told the Maine Monitor the point of the two bills she sponsored – L.D. 868 and L.D. 1337 – was to protect girls from discrimination and restore fair competition. Fairly simple and straightforward, one might think.
What came next; however, was organized pushback by not only the usual suspect, but also a surprising sub-sect of clergy, driven by a questionable political ideology.
The overwhelming opposition to Rep. Caruso’s valiant attempt to help solidify the biological dividing line between genders came from the liberal elite dressed as the prayerful.
“If these bills pass we will be taking giant steps backwards and my small community will experience a return to the same discrimination and oppression I fled moving to Maine,” said former Arkansan and “trans-woman” Episcopal priest Gwen Fry, now of Waterville.
(Just so we’re clear, liberals wanting to pretend that the phrase “trans-woman” translates [sorry] to “woman” is a euphemistic contortion of the obvious.)
Meanwhile, Jared Saks, a rabbi in Portland, claimed that his support for transgendered people is rooted in Jewish text and tradition.
Saks pointed out references to “at least six different sex and gender identities” from historic Jewish legal codes and rabbinic commentary.
Amazing what one can find in dog-eared biblical passages to support a twisted modern-day thesis that defies all logic.
Almost like AI on steroids.
But they weren’t fooling Caruso despite conveniently invoking religion as a means of trying to debase biology.
“Regardless of religious belief or even political affiliation, the majority of Mainers and Americans clearly see that allowing males to compete in girls’ sports is unfair, discriminatory, and denies biological reality,” Caruso said.
In days of yore, figuring out gender identity wasn’t even a thing. It was all textualized and diagrammed in Gray’s Anatomy.
Still is, as a matter of fact.
But now, of course, questioning anatomist and surgeon Henry Gray‘s teachings helps liberal clerics to raise money for new (gender-neutral) pews.
Remember the good ole days when basic biology defined gridiron goal posts and bathroom stalls?
When Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn) posted a (publicly-available) picture of a trans high-school athlete on social media and she got gagged and dragged by her Democrat colleagues.
Libby’s logic even spurred Democrat Gov. Janet Mills to pick a fight at a White House gathering with Trump.
There is some hope, however – Maine’s Catholic diocese and the Christian Civic League of Maine registered support for traditional anatomy.
The diocese “opposes the advancement of gender theory, especially in places where young people are affected,” said spokeswoman Suzanne Lafreniere. Lafreniere called gender “a gift from God.”
“At its root, this issue is not just political, it is spiritual,” Nick Adolphsen, executive director of the Christian Civic League, said.
Caruso, an industrial engineer and registered Maine Whitewater Guide, launched her fight for protecting traditional gender in her first year as a state rep from District 72.
She was elected in November with more than 70 percent of the vote against independent Cynthia Soma-Hernandez, a former teacher from Newark, N.J.
Notwithstanding laudatory efforts by conservative Maine lawmakers to follow Gray’s Anatomy, they’ll still have an uphill fight with the state’s highest, liberal-leaning court.
The panel in 2014 Maine’s ruled that denying a “transgender girl” in Orono the use of her school’s girls bathroom violated her rights under Maine’s Human Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination against “transgender” people.
