Last week, a team of four girls’ teams of Prex Island High School student-athletes marched at the Maine Capitol building in Augusta.

They went to SPAR with Democrats in the state legislature, which three bills would ban biological men from participating in girls’ sports – a problem that puts their state and sports seasons into chaos in 2025.

For three of them, this is their first political rally, and they are at the center. They had to dabble in pro-transition counter-protesters outside the building and among them the liberal legislators who dismissed.

First-time protester Hailey Himes told Fox News Digital, "It's a little daunting to know that they don't have the same beliefs as us."

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But Himes said she had to participate in the battle when her English teacher assigned her an article on the subject on March 12 to protect the women's sports from trans athletes.

Just a month before that, Himes and other female athletes witnessed pole vault jumps that drove their state into a national conflict when a transgender athlete won first place in women's pole vault at Greely High School in early February.

"I looked at this stage with a male pole standing on the podium and we were like it looked like, like, 'We're pretty sure that's not a girl. There's no way it's a girl.' "It's really frustrating, especially for the girls on the podium, it's frustrating." This inspired me to fight for them. ”

So Himes, along with her track and field teammates Lucy Cheney and Carrlyn Buck, at Augusta, under the leadership of Presque Isle Track athlete Cassidy Carlisle, has participated in two Augusta parades and went to Washington, D.C. to meet the GOP leaders.

The group has extensive experience in dealing with disputes involving trans athletes and has been together at home for many years. When a biological male joined the women’s tennis team a few years ago, the girls saw their high school being shocked by the situation involving inter-athletes.

"We've all heard from friends that we didn't do tennis, so it was just a tone," Cheney said. "At that time, there was nothing we could do about it because the government agreed to let them play so we actually just have to accept it and there's no one else on the team who really wanted to accept it, but they had to do it."

All four girls added that this quickly became one of the worst topics in Presque Isle’s high school years and it lasted until the 2022-23 and 2023-24 school years before trans athletes graduated last summer.

Now, this year, they all have to compete in the shadow of a national clash between the state and Donald Trump as Gov. Janet Mills and the Democratic majority promise to keep trans athletes in the women's sports.

Mills' stance has the potential to cost federal funds from the state's high school while leaving Carlisle, Heath, Cheney, Barker and his teammates face anxiety about competing with trans athletes in the state's track and field playoffs.

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When the four teenagers entered the Capitol on Thursday, they faced face to face with people who kept trans athletes involved in the sports. The Democratic majority in the Maine Legislature has been active, actively resisting the Trump administration, and for months the president's executive order to "remove men from women's sports."

But now there are three Republican-supported bills - LD 868, LD 233 and LD 1134 - that reverse their policies on their own floors, with more than a dozen Maine high school girls athletes fighting Democrats there.

"They definitely ask much fewer questions to people who disagree, not people who they agree with, and you can say they are not compassionate," Cheney said of the Democratic leaders.

“When (Pro-Trans spokesperson) shared, they became emotional, it seemed that they really cared about them and wanted to support them, and they didn’t feel as much as they wanted to hear our side.”

Barker said when Democrats do ask questions, they seem to be "hostile."

"When they ask questions, they seem to be more hostile to our testimony," Buck said. "It feels like there are a lot of problems stalking."

Still, teenagers have to let everyone in the conference hall know what they are dealing with as trans athletes compete in the track and field playoffs in Maine, threatening the entire season.

A cross-identification athlete competed for North Yarmouth Academy in Yarmouth, Maine, and recently dominated the women's 800-meter and 1600-meter races in the Poland-Nya-Yarmouth-Seaccoast race, ignited national anger.

“It’s really unfortunate for my teammates, and for some of my best friends in the competition I’ve played with[trans athletes]and our team is the whole team because those perspectives affect our team rankings.”

"It's not only about the point, but our teammates get frustrated when playing against them because they already know the results are decided and against biology men who are more powerful than them, so they don't have a chance."

Carlisle is already very familiar with the feeling of this failure, losing to the same athlete, who has occupied the Polish-Nia-Yarmouth-Sugus race in past running and skiing competitions, dating back to 2023. Most importantly, she first had to go through the experiences of a seventh grade male in the sports class in the same locker room.

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But even now, as the rising crusador against trans women's sports, participated in parades, meetings of Republican lawyers, and even the Justice Department's press conference, announcing a lawsuit against Maine to file a lawsuit against Maine, she said she still had a friend who was a thromist.

"I'm talking to them almost every day and we've never had negative interactions," Carlisle said. "For those who want to say we don't accept it, it's not a problem. We have no problem with trans people. When it starts to affect our lives, we have problems."

Carlisle saved her resentment not for trans people, or even trans athletes, but for mills.

"She looked straight at us and said 'I don't care about you.' "I will definitely take that into account when I vote next time. ”

All four teenagers plan to go to the state capitol regularly to lobby on behalf of LD 868, LD 233 and LD 1134 until they sign into law as they try to keep men out and continue to include federal funds into schools.

"Our school needs federal funding," Carlisle said. "So (Milles), now she's not only looking at Maine girls athletes, and saying 'I don't care about you.' She looked at Maine students and said, "I don't care about you, I don't care if your school has funding because I'm going to choose a fight that really doesn't need to be selected." ”

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Mills, the Maine Department of Education and the Maine Principal Association have firmly supported continuing to make women’s sports trans sports across the state, citing Maine’s human rights acts as a precedent for determining gender qualities.

Meanwhile, two Maine school districts have taken things into their own hands, as MSAD No. 70 and RSU No. 24 have adopted a policy of modifying their own to keep trans athletes away from girls’ sports.

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Apart from those school districts and young women, Mills and the Democrats may end up facing greater internal resistance than outside.

one investigation The American Parents League found that of about 600 registered Maine voters, 63% said school sports participation should be based on biological gender, while 66% agreed that "it is fair to limit women's exercise to biological women."

Polls also found that 60% of residents will support voting measures to limit participation exist Women and girls sports Bio-female. This includes 64% of independents and 66% of parents of children under the age of 18.

But so far, the Governor remains firmly opposed to Trump even at the expense of taxpayer-funded attorney fees.

"I'm happy to go to court to litigate the questions raised in this court," Mills told reporters in April.

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