"Maine voters in November will vote yes or no on the following question: 'Do you want to change civil rights and education laws to require public schools to restrict access to bathrooms and sports based on the gender on the child's original birth certificate and allow students to sue the schools?'"
"If the ballot question is approved, schools will be required to label all teams as male, female, or co-ed and restrict participation based on a participant's sex assigned at birth."
"Maine has been standing up to the presidential administration's attempts to withhold federal funding for unrelated programs to get states to ban trans students from participating in school sports."
""I told him I'd see him in court," Mills said at the time. "Well, we did see him in court, and we won.""
Maine's upcoming ballot initiative will ask voters if civil rights and education laws should be changed to restrict bathroom and sports access based on a child's birth certificate. Public comment on the wording is open until May 7, with finalization by May 28. If approved, schools must label teams by sex assigned at birth and restrict bathroom access. Maine has resisted federal pressure to ban trans students from sports, with Governor Janet Mills stating her commitment to legal action against the administration's attempts to withhold funding.
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