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Alex Kirshner

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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM

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Antonio McDyess Clay

@thomnottom.bsky.social

Just put group DMs on here, literally that’s all it’ll take to get a lot of people to switch

March 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM

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Ben Nicholson-Smith

@bnsbaseball.bsky.social

With Roki Sasaki's decision hanging in the balance, do you think Blue Jays execs are chatting to reporters about how they’ll maybe trade away their franchise player? If you're reading about the Mets & Vlad Jr., there's really one team it could have come from. Seems like Mets want that out there.

January 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM

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Mike Vorkunov

@mikevorkunov.bsky.social

Greg Gumbel was big time. He hosted a show on WFAN, he hosted the CBS NFL pregame show, hosted Sportscenter. And he was an anti-war protestor.

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December 28, 2024 at 12:30 AM

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Norm Charlatan

@normcharlatan.bsky.social

Love to see Columbus PD quick to unload pepper spray on uniformed football players fighting at midfield in a stadium of 90k people versus this scene from 2 weeks ago.

November 30, 2024 at 9:31 PM