PORTLAND, Maine (WMTW) - The organizers behind the Protect Girls’ Sports in Maine moment held a drive-through signature drive in Brunswick on Saturday to get signatures for a citizen’s initiative that would ban transgender athletes from girls’ sports.

If the group gets 68,000 signatures by February, the initiative, “An Act to Designate School Sports Participation and Facilities by Sex,” will go to voters in November 2026.

The referendum would require all schools to designate sports teams, bathrooms and locker rooms by gender: male, female or co-ed.

Banning transgender athletes from sports could run afoul of the Maine Human Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity. The group claims this law would adhere to the Maine Human Rights Act and Title IX. Trans

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