Maine high school athlete Cassidy Carlyle explained her message to Gov. Janet Mills as the state continued to crush his nose as President Donald Trump and maintained his transgender athlete policy in women's and women's sports.
Carlisle opened last week at Fox News Digital about how the state's transgender policy influenced her childhood, revealing that it was changing in front of gym-class transgender students during middle school.
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Cassidy Carlisle from Fox & Friends, a main high school athlete. (Fox News Channel)
Carlisle, now a senior in high school, has become the voice of her state change. She met with U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi last month and shared her story about having to compete with trans athletes in sports. She also spoke in front of the Maine Capitol earlier this month as hundreds of people protested gender inclusion policies.
She appeared on “Fox & Friends” on Monday, further explaining what her message to Mills was.
“My message to the governor was to think about all of us in your state,” she said. “If she can really look at us and say I'm not going to fight for you, it's really heartbreaking because she had to fight for a long time to have the position she has. So, she's going to fight for her, so that's why she's going to fight for us all and say I'm not going to fight for you.”
Carlisle added that she knows something is wrong when she is first exposed to the state's transgender policy. But she said she didn't know how to speak at the time.
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Democrat Maine Governor Janet Mills will speak with reporters at Lewiston City Hall in Lewiston, Maine on Thursday, October 26th, 2023. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, file)
“I think it's one of those. When it happens, you don't know what to do, but you definitely know that something is wrong,” she said. I was 13 and knew something was wrong, but I didn't know what to do.
“I didn't have a platform to speak. I think it's really difficult because you feel like you have no voice, but that's not true.
Carlisle explained in Fox News Digital's Op-Ed how she was concerned about the future of women's sports if the policy continued.
“If a state like myself continues in this direction, I really fear the future of women's sports. Girls of all ages see women being erased from sports. I can't be confident that their efforts and dedication will be respected in a fair shot of physical equality,” she writes.
“We have to win this fight for them. This is a competition that we cannot lose.”
Main high school student Cassidy Carlyleski. (Provided by Cassidy Carlisle)
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Until Thursday, the Trump administration gave Maine appreciation of executive orders to protect biological men from women's sports or risk losing federal funds to public schools.
Jackson Thompson of Fox News contributed to this report.
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