Maine continues to let transgender athletes invade women’s sports in direct defiance of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning such situations from happening.
On Friday, Trump and Maine Gov. Janet Mills got into a heated war of words in which the governor said she would not comply with the president’s policy or transgenders in women’s sports. That led to Mills and Trump exchanging threats of a lawsuit and cutting federal funding for the state, respectively.
"You better do it... because you're not going to get any federal funding at all if you don't."
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) February 21, 2025
President Trump calls out Maine's Governor Janet Mills to her face for refusing to comply with his EO keeping men out of women's sports. pic.twitter.com/xR6f8nhJEl
Just four days after this exchange, another story has emerged showing that Mills’ commitment to insanity is allowing things to spread far and wide in her state.
From February 18-19, Maine held its High School State Nordic Skiing Championships at Black Mountain. In that competition, Soren Stark-Chessa (who competed for Maine Coast Waldorf - MCW) took third place in girls' Class C Freestyle and fourth in girls' Class C Classical which was good enough for MCW to win third place overall at the state meet.
The only problem with this? Stark-Chessa identifies as a female, even though he is a male.
🚩Maine: ANOTHER boy has taken girls’ high school state podium spots this time in Nordic skiing.
— ICONS (@icons_women) February 24, 2025
Soren Stark-Chessa placed 3rd & 4th in the state championships single-handedly earning enough points to secure Maine Coast Waldorf’s 3rd-place women’s team finish.
This comes the… pic.twitter.com/SCTITtrQnp
This isn’t the first time that Stark-Chessa has competed in girl’s sports in Maine. Last June, he won the 800-meter event at the Maine Principals’ Association (MPA) Class C Girls’ Outdoor Track and Field State Championship.
While Mills has yet to say anything about the matter, she made it clear in her conversation with Trump that she supported men doing stuff like this. After all, she threatened to sue Trump after the president heard about the transgender female who won a spot on the podium in pole vaulting early last week.
This is such a strange fight for Mills to initiate, given that most people don’t want men in women’s sports and that Trump signed an executive order providing absolute clarity on this issue. If she continues to fight on this hill, she will likely suffer a lot of (justified) consequences.
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