Biological Male Wins Girls’ Pole Vaulting Competition Days After Maine Rejects President Trump’s Order: Reports

Upon entering office for a second term, President Donald Trump quickly followed through on his promise to address the extreme policies of his predecessor’s administration on topics like gender.

One executive order prohibited biological males from competing in organized sporting events meant exclusively for girls or women.

IT’S OFFICIAL: @POTUS just signed a groundbreaking executive order to protect women’s sports, recognizing that women’s sports are for WOMEN!

Thank you, President Trump, for continuing the fight to stand with women. 1/ pic.twitter.com/DKENoxEV0r

— Independent Women's Forum (@IWF) February 5, 2025

While the move garnered significant support from the general public, many on the far left castigated it as an attack on the transgender community.

The Maine Principals Association took it a step further, officially rejecting the order in a move earlier this month, as reported by Breitbart:

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’ pole-vault champion, who set an 11-foot, one-inch record last year at the National Pole Vault Summit,” The Maine Wire reported. “He jumped a full eight inches higher than the second-place winner among the girls.”

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The report notes that at the same competition, the winning athlete on the boy’s team jumped 14 feet, meaning the trans-identifying boy would have been in 10th place if he had been on the team aligning with his biological sex.

President Trump signed an executive order banning transgender athletes from playing in women’s and girl’s sports on February 5. Consequently, federal Title IX rules were altered to that effect, and schools that refuse to obey the order risk having their federal funding withdrawn.

Last week, the Maine Principals Association (MPA) confirmed that it will not abide by Trump’s executive order protecting women’s sports.

“The executive order and our Maine state Human Rights Act are in conflict, and the Maine Principal’s Association (MPA) will continue to follow state law regarding gender identity,” MPA executive director Mike Burnham said.

🚨 A boy who participated in a girls event just took 1st place in Maine’s State Class B Championship—after ranking 5th on the boys’ team.

This isn’t fairness. This is cheating and an attack on women’s sports.

Thoughts? ⬇️ 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/NC4S3gg1iX

— Tony Lane 🇺🇸 (@TonyLaneNV) February 18, 2025

Stories of biological males dominating sports meant for females have abounded in recent years despite leftist assurances that they are exceedingly rare.

The NCAA allows biological men in women’s sports and men in women’s locker rooms. Five women’s volleyball teams have had to forfeit games to teams with men this fall alone. How much longer will NCAA allow this insanity to go on pic.twitter.com/yPQZQHj22G

— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) December 17, 2024

Even a growing number of self-identified trans individuals are speaking out:

I’m a transsexual, I wasn’t ‘assigned’ being male… I was BORN as a male.

Biological males like me don’t belong in women’s sports.

— Moni 💕 (@MoniFunGirl) February 5, 2025

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova was among the notable female athletes who spoke out in favor of Trump’s executive order, as the Miami Herald reported:

President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order titled “Keeping Men out of Women’s Sports,” which has led the NCAA to ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s college sports. The decision follows Trump’s directive to federal agencies to withdraw funding from educational institutions that allow transgender girls and women to compete in women’s sports. Tennis legend Martina Navratilova recently spoke up on the matter, writing, “I hate that the Democrats totally failed women and girls on this very clear issue of women’s sports being for females only.”

Navratilova stated, “More Dems need to step up here. I know many who agree but are scared to speak up because of re-election. I say do the right thing. Grow a spine.”

Here’s some coverage of Trump’s signing ceremony: