AUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine Human Rights Commission’s legal battle over transgender student policies has widened in recent weeks, beginning with a lawsuit filed in mid-November and expanding to include an additional district at the start of December.

The Maine Human Rights Commission added a sixth district, Maine School Administrative District 52 in Turner, after its board voted 5-4 to adopt a policy mirroring an executive order signed earlier this year by President Donald Trump, the Portland Press Herald reported Friday. The policy asserts that Title IX requires schools to separate sports by "biological sex."

Superintendent Cari Medd warned that the district’s legal counsel might not defend the board’s decision, a concern also echoed in other districts facing litigation.

The commissio

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