Looks like Maine is the home to the newest iteration of Lia Thomas. Not as a swimmer, but as a runner. A trans runner named Soren Stark-Chessaat a high school in Maine, who placed 172nd in boys running managed to place fourth in the girls division after transitioning.
Parents and students were outraged over a transgender runner competing with the girls in the Maine XC Festival of Champions on Saturday.
Maine Coast Waldorf School high school sophomore Soren Stark-Chessa previously competed in the boys’ category for the school one year prior. In the 5k division, Stark-Chessa ranked approximately 172nd among males in the state. After transitioning, however, the runner shot up to 4th place in the girls’ division.
Cheater boy from Freeport, ME Soren Stark-Chessa displaces the 11th placed girl from a medal, as expected.
He finishes the girls race 5th.
Pathetic.
The #MainePrincipalsAssociation are woke morons. pic.twitter.com/DxbIFBgdzl
— Shawn McBreairty 🇺🇸 (@ShawnMcBreairty) September 30, 2023
She also criticized the Maine Principals Association for allowing the transgender runner to compete based on its “Gender Equity and Inclusion Policy.”
“Obviously, there is an unfair advantage, but they’ve allowed this. Last year, in outdoor track, in the Class-C state meet, two boys participated. One podiumed and was moved on to the New England track meet. So a girl was put aside and not allowed to medal and not allowed to participate in a higher level because of this boy,” Collins explained.
The policy declares that “all students should have the opportunity to participate in MPA activities in a manner that is consistent with their gender identity, unless such participation would result in an unfair athletic advantage or would present an unacceptable risk of injury to other student athletes.”