Maine Gov. Janet Mills Faces Protests and Recall Effort Over Stance on Trans Athletes in Women’s Sports
“I implore you to sign this petition to voice our collective dissent and to initiate the recall of Governor Janet Mills.”
Last week, Maine’s Democrat Governor Janet Mills was caught up in a viral moment with President Trump over the issue of trans athletes in women’s sports. She was defiant in the face of Trump’s executive order on the subject.
Now she is facing protests and a recall effort in her own state.
The Daily Wire reports:
Hundreds Show Up To Protest Maine Gov. Janet Mills Over Trans Sports Policy
About 500 Maine residents on Saturday gathered in front of the State House to protest Democrat Governor Janet Mills’ refusal to keep men out of female sports and spaces.
Earlier this month, Mills clashed with President Donald Trump at the White House, telling POTUS she will not enforce his orders on gender and would see him “in court” over the issue. The heated exchange between the pair was sparked by the news of a transgender-identifying high school boy taking first place in girls’ pole vaulting at Maine’s Class B state championship — a win that helped the high school take first place overall.
The protest against Mills garnered about 500 people, according to State Rep. Katrina Smith, and seems to have sparked organically, with the help of a resident-created “March Against Mills” Facebook event and a Change.org petition. The protest comes in stark contrast with an event held last week in support of Mills, which reportedly brought out “dozens” of supporters.
“Huge turnout in Augusta to march for women’s equality in sports,” The Maine Wire reported Saturday, captioning footage from the event.
A crowd of 500 people may not sound very large, but remember, this is Maine.
Huge protest in Maine to support women’s rights to their sports, safety and privacy. I am so glad to see this movement spreading in the country. This is common sense, moderate Dems should join us. Woke @GovJanetMills is in trouble. pic.twitter.com/pPAIMiGNZC
— Lily Tang Williams (@Lily4Liberty) March 1, 2025
Rep. Laurel Libby of Maine has taken on this cause.
I probably wouldn’t have started posting on X just 2 weeks ago, if @GovJanetMills and the Maine Democrat Majority did the right thing, protected our girls, and kept biological males out of girls' sports.
But, they didn't…
Now, our movement is bigger than the Governor 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/FetAKZ4OAu
— Rep. Laurel Libby (@laurel_libby) March 1, 2025
🚨 This is *exactly* what @GovJanetMills and Maine's Democrat Majority were afraid of:
Maine girls are seeing the *national support* that they are receiving and are choosing to speak out against biological males in girls' sports.pic.twitter.com/d8yHWqpBaE
— Rep. Laurel Libby (@laurel_libby) March 1, 2025
Watch as Maine Democrats refuse to answer if they support men competing in women's sports after taking away @laurel_libby's vote and right to speak on the House floor. pic.twitter.com/I0uzAKXvgi
— The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) February 26, 2025
The recall effort against Mills is gaining steam.
FOX News reports:
Petition to recall Maine governor, opposed to Trump’s trans sports order, gets 22,000 signees ahead of protest
Ahead of a “March Against Mills” on Saturday, an online petition to recall the governor of Maine has received over 22,000 signatures…
Melissa Moulton is listed as the “petition starter” on change.org. She is also the “host” of the “March Against Mills” event on Facebook.
“I am standing among many Maine citizens who are deeply dissatisfied with the policies introduced by our Governor, Janet Mills. I believe strongly that her policies are not in alignment with the wishes and values of the majority of Mainers,” Moulton wrote. “The feeling of disconnect between the populace and leadership is palpable and widespread. Various statistics underline rural-urban divide that has been exacerbated by the Governor’s decisions. Additionally, several of her policies contradict the economic growth and prosperity that should be our government’s priority. I am yet another citizen calling for change and improvement for our beloved state of Maine. It is imperative that we hold our elected officials accountable. I implore you to sign this petition to voice our collective dissent and to initiate the recall of Governor Janet Mills. Together we can work to ensure our government truly represents us all.”
The 2024 election made the public’s position on this issue pretty clear. People are not going to tolerate ‘resistance’ on this. You would think Democrats, with all of the talk about their reverence for democracy, would understand that.
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I wish them well. I live in a state that desperately needs some basic common sense. I hope that a successful Maine protest will result in other Blue states rethinking their policies towards males co-opting girls and women’s sports.
They have a good start but are going to need about 150,000 signatures to do it (15% of registered voters). I hope they succeed but with all the Massholes that moved in and ruined the state I’m not sure they will get there. Maine suffers the same thing NH and VT do. People from down south moved in and took over now the states are run by a couple of leftist big cities
She cannot be recalled no matter how many people sign a petition. Like most states, Maine has no recall provisions for state leaders.
Not LI’s finest hour in running this article without pointing that out.
It’s so ridiculous that so many Democrats are willing to die on this hill.
More than 70% of Americans – including a MAJORITY OF DEMOCRATS – don’t support MEN competing in women’s sports.
And yet at every turn Democrat politicians rabidly fight to defend it.
They think their position on the subject helped them win the presidential election.
Oh…
Theodore Dalrymple said it best:
The goal of Communists is not just to exercise power (although they get a demonic pleasure out of wielding it), but to completely remake humanity in their own image. To do they you must first completely break them down so they can become the New Communist Man.
where do we send money to help make this happen.
I’ll forward you the 30 texts I get daily.
The d/prog got so caught up in their desire for hugs/kisses from Hollywood, legacy media and the alphabet mafia that they lost the plot. They don’t seem to understand that they are now the Political home of whacko wokiesta leftists, the majority of the 1%, the economic underclass their policies created via bad schools/destructive social policies and the massive Gov’t bureaucracy who process the payments.
So long as they want to run deficit spending to fund all sorts of Cray Cray, block basic reform efforts, oppose mainstream American values, mock religion, send Troops and $ overseas in pointless adventurism, push draconian regulations, demand speech codes for pronouns and refuse to make the common sense stance that biological Men shouldn’t be in Women’s spaces or sports they gonna lose on a National basis. Places like SF, Portland and NYC may go for it but not the majority elsewhere.
The big news is that a boy competed as a girl in a high school track and field championship and won the girls’ pole vault.
Last year, the same boy entered as a boy and came in fifth place when competing with other boys.
Last year he was John Spencer and came in fifth place. This year he’s Katie Spencer and came in first. His parents are real proud.
Sounds like Mills is a Mainiac.
Sound and fury signifying nothing.
Even if Mills is removed (hint: not going to happen) the electorate that put her into office will still be there.
Make no mistake: they’re hard core Marxists. They’ll simply find someone else that checks enough boxes (female, black, lesbian…) and that person will take over.
Take my word for it, these people are lunatics.
Once again, the massholes from taxachutsetts have ruined another northeastern state.
The 2024 election did made Mainers’ position on this issue clear: a clear majority voted for Harris. It seems very likely that a majority support Mills and would vote to retain her.
Your confused. People did not vote for Harris because of this issue, people voted for Harris because they had TDS. Janet Mills is not running against Trump here, she is running against every girl in women sports. Big difference.
How do you know why they voted for her? But if you think people did not vote because of this issue then your objection is not to me but to Mike Lachance, who claimed that “the 2024 election made the public’s position on this issue pretty clear”. Either it did or it didn’t, but if it did then it made it clear that the public in Maine (which is the only public that is relevant here) supports this madness and wants more of it.
The Pine Tree State Poll asked them.
According to recent polling, 79 percent of Americans, including 67 percent of Democrats and Democrat-leaning Americans, believe that men should not compete in women’s sports.
MarkSmith, what “Americans’ think is irrelevant here. This is about Mainers, not all Americans. What people in other states think is irrelevant to who should be governor of Maine.
And if, as Mike Lachance says, “the 2024 election made the public’s position on this issue pretty clear”, then it made it clear that the public supports Mills and her fellow Democrats, and wants more of their insane policies.
Then Maine women need to decide: Do they continue voting democrat even though the DEMOCRAT party elites are pushing pushing this because they will try to control ANY subset of our population in order to move on to other subsets of our population.
Women who historically vote democrat must understand what’s at stake. Their virtue signaling will come back to haunt them if they continue voting for the stupidity that boys can be girls and girls can be boys.
idiots here can’t vote to retain her luckily. term limits.
They can at a recall election, which is what we are discussing.
Except that Maine law has no recall laws for state officials.
Then what are we discussing? What kind of recall petition is this about?
The bottom line on all transgenders is they make an unscientific claim and then demand everyone go along with it. I have no issue with you calling yourself anything you want, just don’t expect me to go along with it. There can be no transgender rights, only human rights.
Dems think that tolerance and acceptance are the same thing. When it comes to woke stuff, I barely tolerate it, and absolutely do not accept it. Dems just don’t know how to quit when behind.
Look at me.
Look at me.
I am da federal law now.
she term limited as it is, 2022 was her last election for governor.
at this point its better the devil you know here.
No coverage for the Tumwater girl?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WYK_LCfRlw&t=6s