Cassidy Carlisle Was in seventh grade, she said, when she had to turn into the same dressing room as a transgender student.
During a gym class at Presque Isle Middle School in Noord -Maine six years ago, she said, she walked the Dressing room To find a biological man who would change with her and other girls. She claims that she was told by managers that if she tried to prevent her from changing with the transstudent, she would run the risk of coming in class.
“That was really my first experience to just know that something is wrong, but not knowing what to do with it,” Carlisle told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview. Fox News Digital has contacted Presque Isle Middle School for Comment.
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Gender identity was first included in the Maine Human Rights Act as part of the definition of sexual orientation in 2005. In 2021 the law was amended to add gender identity as his own protected class, with other protected classes such as sex, sexual orientation, handicap, race, color and religion. The law specifically says that refusing equal opportunities in athletic programs is educational discrimination.
The transgender student was only about a week in the girls’ dressing room, Carlisle claims before he disappears mysteriously. But the memory of the experience remained with her.
Maine High School Student Cassidy Carlisle Skiing (Thanks to Cassidy Carlisle)
The memory remained especially with her in her junior year from high school, when she found out that she would compete with a transatleet in the Nordic ski team of the state.
It was an athlete with whom she was known. In previous years she had already lost to the Transatleet in cross -country matches.
When her father told her that she would have to undergo the athlete again in skiing, Carlisle did not believe it happened.
“I had something like that:” Oh, that’s just something I hear about the news a bit about. … it is not going to happen to me, “Cassidy recalled.
Maine High School Student Cassidy Carlisle is running in a job event (Thanks to Cassidy Carlisle)
But it happened to her.
“The defeat that goes with it is heartbreaking,” said Carlisle. “I’m just in a way in shock. I didn’t believe it. … I didn’t think it happened to me.”
As a child, Carlisle left her co-ed hockey team specifically because she felt that she “couldn’t keep up” with the boys. Then, even after she had committed herself with a sport with only girls, she could not escape the physical disadvantage that came with opposite biological men.
On top of the fear of the situation, Carlisle had the feeling that she couldn’t speak about it.
“I kept silent for a while,” said Carlisle. “It is very difficult to speak if you don’t have a platform to do it. … Backlash is a huge thing. I am a high school student. No high school student wants to be injured or shout or mean comments from people. And its reality, with the state in which I live, that could happen a lot.”
What she could do was vote in the November elections. As the first voter, she released her mood with the issue of trans-athletes in girls’ sports in the foreground.
A National Exit survey Led by the Women for America’s legislative Action Committee, 70% of moderate voters discovered the issue “Donald Trump’s opposition to transgender boys and men saw those girls and women’s sports playing and of transgender boys and men who use girls and women’s bathrooms” as important to them.
And 6% said it was the most important issue of all, while 44% said it was ‘very important’.
When Republican Maine State Rep. Laurel Libby Earlier this year, it spread against another transatleet who won a girl polymet white match in February, Carlisle suddenly got the chance to influence the issue.
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Libby’s social media post that identifies the Transatleet put the entire state in a constant cultural war. It became a ground for a national struggle for the issue conducted by the Trump administration against various states controlled by the Democrat as Maine after Trump had signed an executive order to tackle the issue on 5 February.
Suddenly, thousands of people in Maine spoke out against the laws of the state that make trans -inclusion in girls’ sports and changing rooms possible, all with the president’s support.
So Carlisle participated.
On 27 February, Carlisle made a trip to the White House with various other current and former female athletes affected by Trans -Inclusion, including Payton Mcnabb and Selina Soule. There they met attorney -general Pam Bondi and various other lawyers -general and shared their stories.
Carlisle couldn’t help it, but noticed an absence in the White House that day,
“None of our AGS was out of our state,” said Carlisle.
So when Carlisle returned to her state, she took matters into her own hands.
Last weekend she gave a speech for the Maine Capitool and spoke with hundreds of other residents there to protest against GOV. Janet Mills for her permanent transatletes in girls sports.
It was the second protest against Mills outside the Capitol in a month after the Mars on Mills Rally on March 1.
The Trump administration takes aggressive measures to allow the state to adhere to the wishes of Carlisle and other residents who want women who are protected against trans -inclusion.
On March 17, the Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced that if found The Maine Department of Education, the Maine Principals’ Association and Greely High School in violation of title IX for making trans -inclusion in girls sports.
In the announcement, the ministry said that Maine had 10 days to correct his policy through a signed agreement or risk change to the US Department of Justice for appropriate action.
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Trump has already shown the willingness to reduce federal financing to enforce this policy. He paved $ 175 million in financing at the University of Pennsylvania and temporarily paused the financing at the University of Maine system last week until an assessment had discovered that the system was Completely compliance With the orders of Trump.
The deadline for the rest of Maine to satisfy arrives within the week.
“I really hope Maine is satisfactory because our schools need federal financing, and we can’t run the risk of losing it,” said Carlisle. “It would really hurt our state to lose federal financing. So I hope our government can get it together.”
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