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Maine Human Rights Commission sues five school districts over transgender policies
All of the school policies were enacted after the Trump administration began pressuring Maine last winter to ban transgender athletes from girls sports teams.
The conservative effort to take over Maine’s school boards stalled this November
Adam Zajac, a Windham school board candidate who narrowly lost after opposing transgender student protections, said he believes the election was rigged.
School consolidations, ordered in 2007, are shattering as towns seek local control
Following last week’s vote to withdraw from RSU 10, Buckfield, Hartford and Sumner to schedule special town meetings to discuss withdrawal agreements.
At packed meeting, St. George officials vote to let transgender child play girls basketball
The 3-2 vote came after parents crowded a selectmen meeting last week to protest the child’s place on a recreational team.
Parents in a Midcoast town protest a transgender child’s place on basketball team
St. George is the latest Maine community to debate the fairness of allowing transgender girls to play on girls sports teams.
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