A transgender-identifying boy snagged first place in a Maine high school girls’ pole vaulting competition on Monday, just days after the state’s governing body for school sports rejected President Donald Trump’s executive order barring males from playing on female sports teams.
The teen boy claimed the victory in the Maine Class B championship for the Greely High School girls’ track and field team. The boy, who now goes by a girl’s name, participated on the boys’ team just last year where he tied for 5th place, according to Maine state Rep. Laurel Libby (R), who drew attention to the incident on social media.
At the meet, the boy jumped 11 feet, “a mediocre score for boys, but within just one inch of Maine’s girls’
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