The culture-war battle that flared up three years ago in Paris, Maine has spread like wildfire across the state in the past year.
As you may recall, voters in Paris recalled two school board members in January 2023. The recall was initiated by parents and taxpayers who were upset with their board members’ vote to adopt a radical “transgender” policy that forced female students to share toilet and shower facilities with male students pretending to be girls, and allowed those mentally ill male students to join girls’ athletic teams.
Once the recall qualified for the ballot, the Oxford Hills school board quickly backtracked, indefinitely postponing (killing) the open-door gender-bender policy they had previously approved on first reading.
Maine First Project subscribers and donors played a decisive role in spearheading the successful recall campaign. We sent three rounds of hard-hitting direct mail, made hundreds of phone calls and sent hundreds of text messages, and paid for a half-page ad in the local weekly newspaper days before the vote.
Since then, at least seven other Maine school boards have taken action to rescind their transgender supremacy policies, most recently RSU 73 (Jay, Livermore Falls, Livermore) last week.
Read all about it here:
The state entity attempting to strong-arm school boards that refuse to embrace trans madness is the Maine Human Rights Commission, a “quasi-independent” state agency created by the Legislature in 1971 to investigate complaints of unlawful discrimination.
All you really need to know about the bureaucrats who run the MHRC is this:
The bill they introduced in 2021 to legalize boys in girls’ sports — LD 1688, “An Act To Improve Consistency in Terminology and within the Maine Human Rights Act” — is a dozen pages of rambling gobbledygook that includes a provision giving men the right to breast-feed their babies in public.
That’s how divorced from reality these clowns are. They are not serious people.
The MHRC’s stupid, incoherent piece of state legislation does not override federal Title IX, a civil rights law passed by Congress in 1972 that bars males from hijacking female sports. The Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution is clear and unambiguous on that point.
Only a dyed-in-the-wool Confederate rebel would argue that state law supersedes federal law.
The good news is that RSU 73 and the Baileyville school district have each hired John “Jack” Baldacci, Jr. as their legal counsel in the battle with the MHRC over transgender policy. Jack has been Maine First Project’s legal counsel for several years, and we highly recommend him.
So stay tuned.
We expect the RSU 24 school board in Hancock County to make news this evening.
Best Regards,
Hon. Lawrence Lockman
Maine House of Representatives, 2012-2020
Co-founder & President
Maine First Project
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