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Sports Changed This Female Athlete’s Life. Now She’s Speaking Up For Girls Like Her
Swimming helped Sofia Pride recover physically and mentally from one of the most challenging…
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Dads Are Reclaiming Common Sense—And Sex-Based Rights—in Maine
Maine Girl Dad Leyland Streiff shares why he is standing up for female-only spaces…
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This Champion High School Athlete Was Forced to Share a Locker Room With a Boy. Now She’s Speaking Up for Girls Like Her
When she was a teenager, Cassidy Carlisle was forced to share a locker room…
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These Dads Are Standing Up for Girls’ Sports
Maine Girl Dads is a non-political coalition of fathers coming together for one mission:…
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‘To Apologize Would Be A Betrayal’: Censured Maine Rep. Laurel Libby Isn’t Backing Down
Maine Rep. Laurel Libby was censured by her Democratic colleagues in February over a…
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A Male Athlete Is Putting Girls’ Nordic Ski at Risk—Is the Sport Too Polite to Save Itself?
After dominating high school girls’ cross-country in Maine, Soren Stark-Chessa, a male student athlete…