Portland (Maine) Public Schools Principal Ryan Scallon faces enormous criticism after comparing the ongoing battle to bring ongoing struggles between women and women’s sports to transcend the American civil rights struggle involving women and minorities.
Scallon did it His comments at a school board meeting Tuesday.
“In our history, there have been many civil rights struggles, including but not limited to fighting for women’s right to vote, racial equality and the right to homosexual marriage. In every battle, the opposition is driven to some extent by fear, trying to be attempted to exclude others to show, act or believe in something different,” Scallon said. “Today, I see this happening again with trans or non-binary students, especially our trans athletes.”
Maine State Rep. Laurel Libby, who recently made a key figure in the state’s ongoing resistance to trans inclusion, told Fox News that she found Scallon’s comments “insulted” and “unreasonable.”
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“It’s an insult to women everywhere,” Libby said. “If I were a parent there, I would feel betrayed, like I didn’t represent, of course my girls didn’t represent… This is an example of the leadership’s active involvement with women and girls.
“It is unreasonable that public officials will compare the awakening policy that allows biological men to participate in the women’s movement with the civil rights struggles that fought the previous generation.”
Libby became a prominent figure in the Maine debate after posting the stage of Greeley High School pole on social media. The steel pipe martial artist participated in the competition as a biological male in June 2024 and eventually won the state championship with a woman.
Libby was later denounced for the position and has since filed a lawsuit in an attempt to regain her voting and speaking privileges.
Allen Cornwall, a former Maine high school pole vault coach and official, had to judge a game involving a trans athlete earlier this year, told Fox News that he believed Scallon’s comment was “farce”.
“It’s a farce,” Cornwall said. “Until you’re sitting there looking at the faces of other girls, and then you can tell me why you think it’s fair, and I really don’t want to hear it. I look at these girls’ faces every week. Years.”
Alleigh Marre, executive director of the American Parents Alliance, provided Fox News Digital with a statement condemning the entire liberal movement in Maine, which is working to achieve transgender.
“The vast majority of parents agree that they are forced to be unacceptable to their children, and they are bored with activists who pretend that biology is not real,” Marre said.
“From girls’ sports and boys in locker room to tampons in boys’ bathroom – families have had enough [witnessing] Sexual misconduct involving minors, today in the House of Representatives said morning prayers. Losing contact did not begin to describe their ongoing actions. Now it’s time for our leaders to listen to their parents and family. ”
Users on social media shared their criticism of Scallon’s comments.
Maine has become one of the largest battlefields in the national debate on the trans women’s movement.
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The bus left Kings High School in Portland, Maine at the end of last semester. (Derek Davis/Staff Photographer)
The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) of the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it has discovered Maine Department of EducationBoth the Maine Principals Association and Greeley High School violated the IX, after investigating the cross-fusion in the women’s movement. HHS said Monday that the state has 10 days to comply with the written agreement or risk referral of the Justice Department.
“What HHS is asking of the Maine Department of Education, the Maine Principals’ Association (MPA) and Greely High School is simple – protect female athletes’ rights. Girls deserve girls-only sports without male competitors. And if Maine won’t come to the table to voluntarily comply with Title IX, HHS will enforce Title IX to the fullest extent permitted by the law,” OCR acting Director Anthony Archeval said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
Ongoing debate in the state led to police protection being assigned to Greeley High School, and even a massive protest against Augusta’s Janet Mills last month.
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