"Organizers from the anti-trans group "Protect Girls Sports" in Maine say that they turned in over 82,000 signatures to the state secretary of state's office to put a trans sports ban on the November ballot this year. Their ballot initiative would require the entities that govern interscholastic sports to designate all teams as male, female, or coed and allow only students assigned female at birth to participate in girls' sports."
""It's necessary to put on the ballot because sex-based discrimination is happening right now," Leyland Streiff of Protect Girls Sports told Bangor Daily News. Anti-trans activists often frame trans rights as an attack on women's rights. "There needs to be a solution for this. Right now it is being solved on a district-by-district level and it shouldn't be. It should be solved on the state level.""
Protect Girls Sports in Maine submitted more than 82,000 signatures to the secretary of state's office seeking a trans sports ban on the November ballot. The proposed initiative would require interscholastic sports organizations to classify teams as male, female, or coed and restrict girls' teams to students assigned female at birth. The measure would also mandate restrooms, locker rooms, and showers be separated by sex assigned at birth. State officials are reviewing signatures to verify at least 67,682 valid Maine voter signatures. Similar efforts in Washington would include authorization for genital examinations.
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