DrummondWoodsum Law Firm Says That “Trans-students” Sports And Bathroom Use Are “Settled Law”
The Maine Supreme Court doesn’t agree with their lies of omission and mischaracterization of “birth-ed sex”
DrummondWoodsum, the largest legal bullying arm of the State of Maine K-12 educational system, tells school board members during an LGBTQ Training that “transgender” students can essentially do whatever they want and the rights, values and safety of the other 99% of the students don’t matter. But of course, this isn’t true, it’s simply a far-left political narrative being pushed by lawyers being paid with millions of your hard earned tax dollars.
It’s like reading from a clinically insane handbook, but this is the nomenclature provided to Maine school board members on October 12th, 2022 as part of an LGBTQ+ training by lawyers from DrummondWoodsum.
This is the third in a multi-part series of articles exposing DrummondWoodsum and the legal side of bullying Maine school board members. If you have not read the first and second editions, I urge you to do so, to set the foundation of how this is a very big business for all involved. Educational assessments and the basics of education are of course, never mentioned in this meeting. Because the actual education of our Maine youth doesn’t make them any money.
DrummondWoodsum lawyer Melissa Hewey stated at the October 12, 2022 “LGBTQ+ and Other Politically Contentious Issues for Board Members” training very unclearly that “…Transgender students must generally be permitted to participate in school programs/activities in accordance to their gender identity.” This is what is called a lie of omission and a half-truth.
First, what does “generally be permitted” mean? “Generally” is defined as, “a rule, usually, for the most part.” It certainly isn’t always, or every time. They are trying to pressure Maine school board members into believing it’s “settled law.” It’s not a law, the way Ms. Hewey tries to break it down between her constant use of the word “umm.” People who are not confident at what they are saying, use “umm” as a nervous tic. I do it myself when I’m searching for words, if I am not prepared. She uses it a ton, which leads me to believe she either 1) wasn’t prepared for the meeting, or 2) doesn’t even believe what she is saying.
You can listen to the DrummondWoodsum lawyer’s own words in this video linked here.
By DrummondWoodsum’s own chart above, it shows that according to them, something like cross-dressing makes you “transgender” because that is gender expression not traditionally associated with sex. Quite a statement…not based in obvious reality. None of this is.
Ms. Hewey states, “People are saying to us, ‘well why are you telling us that you have to have these policies, umm, that allow this kind of thing?’ And the answer really simply is that umm, this is a state law issue often, the law in the State of Maine is absolutely, 100% clear that transgender and gender expansive students umm, are umm, protected and have that right to, not to be separated, or segregated, to use facilities, to access education, in the same way that umm, that any student who umm, of the gender of which they identify.”
No one I am aware of in Maine is attempting to separate a student from their class, or the use of any of the correct facilities for their sex. But here’s the rub. These so-called transgender students are being used as political pawns to divide your school, your communities and our nation; so the far-left can “govern us harder.” Why does a school need a transgender policy? Remember, it’s all about the money. This is big business!
Using students as pawns is pathetic and students, parents, taxpayers and teachers need to start standing up.
Let’s be clear, there is no such thing as a transgender student. “There are two sexes, 0 genders and infinite personalities,” as Kassy Dillon stated on Twitter. She is 100% correct and this is a great line to use against the left. The notion of gender, to remind everyone, was made popular by John Money, a pedophile advocate who sexually experimented on two brothers. Two young children whose lives were forever changed by Mr. Money. Two children who later took their own lives by suicide, due to Mr. Money’s abuse. Do not tolerate the word, “gender” on its own. There are not really 130 genders, like San Francisco, CA has assembled for these mentally ill people.
Anyone who uses the term “gender” on its own needs to know where the term came from and how perverted it is.
So, how does one “label” a “transgender, or gender expansive student?” We know by DrummondWoodsum’s own admission that the schools can’t ask students about their pronouns, so why would sane people allow a student to tell them what they feel like today in a way that could be different from yesterday, or tomorrow? Student self-diagnosis is purely insane! It happens nowhere in our lives, but here in the schools!
The student says, “I’m a boy, I’m a girl, I’m a unicorn, I’m pansexual, I’m attracted to goats,” it makes zero sense. If the adults in the room stop enabling this crap and knock it off, this goes away. If not, you are forced into believing in a different reality than the one we are all living in. Live in reality folks, there is only one reality! Don’t let them tell you any different.
Ms. Hewey tries to say that there are “difficulties of gender fluidity.” Yes indeed, there are difficulties, because you are enabling sexual narcissism and mental illness in that child. Newsflash kids, the world doesn’t revolve around you and facts don’t care about your feelings. Ms. Hewey tries to then tell the Maine school board members participating in this training that they need to “accommodate students who are sort of back and forth.” That’s absolutely not true!
Meaning those children in school who feel one day they are going to go by the pronoun, or gender identity such as “novigender” (yes, this is an actual made up pronoun, where they can’t decide what they are, or it is impossible to fit into one term) and the next day they are a “ze” (yes, also another made up pronoun, meaning gender neutral) and the next day they are a “mangaiko” (no clue, something about being a Japanese pretend girlfriend) and the next day they are a “winkte” (wants to be a woman), the list goes on and on and on.
It’s insane, literally insane, just like a dissociative personality disorder. Or…a kid trying to gain attention, because the school is providing it to them. Schools are celebrating sexual narcissism and mental illness! Celebration leads to more kids seeking attention…
How about schools just telling these kids something like this, “Karen, please go back to your seat, take off your cat ears and tail, stop meowing and if you don’t stop, you are headed to the principal’s office and detention.” Then, the principal calls Karen’s parents and tells them to make sure she knocks it off, because she is being disruptive to the learning environment for the other kids. You know, the supposed reason the schools are full of kids? Learning? Education?
The Maine School Management Association (MSMA) is pushing this nonsense down on school board members also with their “model policies” that are backed up by DrummondWoodsum. As you can see, this “transgender and gender expansive” policy isn’t required, because it isn’t law. I’m not saying the leftards in Augusta won’t make it a law, but currently it has no place in any school in Maine because again, these students don’t exist in this self-diagnosed form.
I’d ask a parent in Maine to push their school board for a “Christian” policy, given that this trans-cultism is now the official state religion of the left and play their game. How about, “My child identifies as a Christian. They will wear the Christian flag, carry their bible, quote verses in the hallways, etc. and I want a policy to protect their rights, so they are not oppressed.” See how that goes over for the fun of it. The classic meme on Fakebook now is “What if a teacher secretly transitioned your child to be Christian, how would you react?” Oh, the hypocrisy!
There is no law requiring schools to enact an insane “transgender and gender expansive” student policy. Just hold all students accountable to common sense and reality. This document was received by Maine Source Of Truth via FOAA to the MSMA. You can look it up in your school district, it is either ACAAA, or ACAA(b).
Let’s dive right into the toilet and cover the bathroom policy. As so many schools across Maine are putting up new signs, allowing teachers in the same bathrooms as young students, creating single use bathrooms that have become vaping rooms and sex dungeons, putting tampons in the boys room, urinals in the girls room and so on. DrummondWoodsum fails to tell the whole truth on this subject of bathrooms and no one reading this should be shocked.
MSMA sample policy ACAAA, as backed by DrummondWoodsum.
For parents and taxpayers to understand, the MSMA policy ACAA(b) is horrible enough, but the policy ACAAA even takes it to a more egregious level. This policy version created by the MSMA and DrummondWoodsum lets the boys into the girls rooms without any parents being made aware! As we have seen, those running these schools don’t want parents to have much say over their child when they are held hostage behind the brick walls of the schools. I’ll be writing about this in more detail in an upcoming article, further exposing DrummondWoodsum’s legal tactics against parents.
DrummondWoodsum pushes that schools, not parents, have rights over your child.
Peter Felmly, the other DrummondWoodsum lawyer putting on this ridiculous training, says, “The guidance is very clear that it doesn’t mean you can take the student who is gender nonconforming or transgender and pluck them out of that context and over their objection make them use a separate facility…” Well, you can make them use the facility of their sex, because without a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria, nothing the student says is fact. It’s all made up. Pretend. Imaginary. It’s not to be leveraged into allowing a boy into the girls bathroom, or locker room. You can’t allow this to happen!
One Maine school board member stated to me about just how this training was portrayed, “I took a training course called “LGBTQ+ and other politically contentious issues for board members.” It was presented by DrummondWoodsum attorneys at law…I would like to share with you what I learned in this training.
If other students are uncomfortable in using the bathrooms or locker rooms with trans students, that's just tough because the trans students rights are greater than other students rights.”
Trans children have more rights in bathrooms than other students: We are teaching little adults. How they are taught in school is how they behave in the adult world. We are teaching children if they are in an uncomfortable situation they have no voice or no right to speak out if they are straight. What type of society are we building for the future?”
Trans policies are not required by law in Maine. Ms. Hewey seems to love using the term, “clear” but never really defines just how unclear this subject is. It’s completely misleading to those attending the training. She says, “Facilities clear, students must be allowed to use toilet and locker room facilities corresponding with their identity.” This notion is completely full of crap! (Get it? Bathroom humor, it’s the only way I can stay sane writing about this garbage.)
Mr. Felmly even tells these school board members to have a copy of the 2014 Doe v. RSU26 Maine Supreme Court case, but he doesn’t tell them the important part about that ruling.
There was an actual medical diagnosis that allowed the boy into the girls room!
Now this ruling was way before the insanity we are seeing in schools today and I don’t believe that finding by the Maine Supreme Court would hold water in the Federal Supreme Court because sex is reality and the risk to all is greater than the “mental anguish” of one confused kid.
Larry Lockman, Co-Founder of Maine First Project, wrote an article on the half truths and lies of omission coming from the mouths of DrummondWoodsum lawyers on May 23rd, 2023. He does such a good job stating the reality of the case, I’ll just include most of it here for you.
Old Town School Board Hits Pause Button on Proposed Transgender Policy
“To put it bluntly, DW’s lawyers are misrepresenting the court’s decision in Doe v. RSU 26.
The case involved Nicole Maines of Orono, a 12-year-old student with a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria, a mental disorder. RSU 26 refused to allow the student to use the girls’ restroom, and the parents sued.
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court issued a very narrow decision in favor of the student, citing the medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria as the basis for its ruling. Here’s what the court actually said in Doe v. RSU 26 (underline emphasis added):
The determination that discrimination is demonstrated in this case rests heavily on [the student’s] gender identity and gender dysphoria diagnosis, both of which were acknowledged and accepted by the school….Thus, we do not suggest that any person could demand access to any school facility or program based solely on a self-declaration of gender identity or confusion without the plans developed in cooperation with the school and the accepted and respected diagnosis that are present in this case. Our opinion must not be read to require schools to permit students casual access to any bathroom of their choice. Decisions about how to address students’ legitimate gender identity issues are not to be taken lightly.
But the policy Drummond Woodsum is pushing on school districts across Maine specifically states that no medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria is necessary. All that’s required is a self-declaration while at school that the student’s “gender identity” is different from the student’s biological sex.
In the words of the proposed policy that was tabled…in Old Town, for a student to be considered transgender “…does not require a medical diagnosis.”
A lie of omission does not make it reality, no matter how many times you don’t say it.
It’s uplifting to see some states, such as Florida’s Board of Education, which enacted policies that counter this nonsense about bathroom usage of the opposite sex for both adults and students. They have created a rule where there are harsh penalties if you don’t use the bathroom corresponding with your sex at birth.
That’s the easy language for any school to use, “sex at birth.” Sex is not “assigned at birth,” it is simply observed. You are born either with an “innie” or an “outie,” not counting the .01% of the population born with some type of sexual defect. Boy, or girl…it’s so easy to figure out, even a leftist should be able to do it.
Ron DeSantis, America’s Governor, said, “A woman should not be in a locker room having to worry about someone from the opposite sex being in their locker room, and it’s happening with athletics, with our girl athletes and women athletes.” A win for girls and women in Florida and the fact that this law has to be made, is a criticism of the laws of common sense, biology and reality. Remember, none of this is “settled law,” as it is constantly evolving.
It’s also equally depressing to realize that until the Maine GOP gets off their asses to expose this evil when it comes to parental issues and education, our state will continue to be a woke wasteland. Where your child is at constant risk from predators behind the brick walls of your local school. Reminder, only 8 out of 80 Maine legislators have stepped up to the microphone at their local school board meeting and provided their concerns. Eight Maine heroes. S don’t count on the GOP to help with your, “local issue” as Senator Stacey Guerin told me and over a dozen local Hampden, ME concerned constituents and parents, when she effectively told us to go pound sand regarding the hyper-sexualization of youth in RSU22.
Ms. Hewey tells the Maine school board members to continue this circuitous journey with addressing trans-sports, next on the hit list for Maine school board members to get indoctrinated on. She says during the training, “Sports, clear, umm, that’s mostly an MPA, umm issue but in most cases, students are able to participate on a team corresponding to their gender identity.”
When a lawyer uses vague terms, they are very clearly used to protect themselves from legal scrutiny. When Ms. Hewy says, “in most cases,” it doesn’t mean it is “clear.” “In most cases” is 100% idiomatic. Meaning it is non-literal. Figurative. Not law. It’s almost an opinion, rather than legal fact. But, remember readers…just follow the money!
The Maine Principals’ Association (MPA) is another group of useful idiots, run by the Principal of Nokomis Regional High School Mary Nadeau, and Principal of Cony Middle/High School, Kimberly Liscomb, who don’t create law, but take $2.00 per every high school athlete as “dues.”
Based on their 2021 IRS 990 form, The MPA received $529,531 in revenue, with $337,338 in “membership dues” from the 253 school districts, $68,417 in “government grants” and $123,776 in “other contributions.” They had total assets of $1,724,496 and revenues of $1,497,727, a large part of which is taxpayer paid dollars.
The MPA has two people making over $100k a year. Mike Burnham, Co-Executive Director, Treasurer and Secretary making $140,360 before benefits and Holly Blair, Co-Executive Director, making $131,970 before benefits. Not bad for running Maine’s school jock sniffing sports programs.
When reviewing the MPA “2022-2023 Handbook,” you’ll see that the word “gender” is used a whopping 48 times in the 49 total pages. There is actually a super-woke group within the MPA which formed a “Gender Identity Committee,” who use the moronic World Professionals Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) standards of care as their north star. It’s like walking toward a random street lamp and thinking you are heading north, then running right into the pole, knocking yourself even more dazed and confused than when you started walking.
From the MPA handbook, “M. A student is eligible to compete on a single sex team only if he or she is a member of that sex, either as reflected on his or her birth certificate or, in the case of a transgender student, as approved in accordance with Article II, Section 12.” They use the terms, “sex,” which is reality and “gender” which is a false social construct back and forth in this publication, further confusing things. If they just stayed with “sex” being used as the determining factor, they would be fine and have a reality based solution. Boys should not be able to compete with girls on the field. Hard stop. It’s that easy.
Section 12 - Gender Equity and Inclusion Policy, now we are getting somewhere. “Consistent with its principles, the MPA believes that all students should have the opportunity to participate in MPA activities in a manner that is consistent with their gender identity, unless such participation would result in an unfair athletic advantage or would present an unacceptable risk of injury to other student athletes.”
“...unless such participation would result in an unfair athletic advantage…or risk of injury.”
That’s all you need, parents. Any boy playing with girls has a vast muscular and physical advantage. It’s the reality of biology. Not only are boys built with more muscle mass, larger bones, and larger body parts in general; but their cardiovascular and respiratory systems function differently. On average, a female’s lung capacity is 10-12% less than a male’s. If I were a dad with girls playing on a sports team and a boy declared himself female to play on the girls sports team, likely due to the fact that he can’t keep up with the other boys, I’d be enraged.
Take all the parents of daughters competing against the 462nd ranked swimmer, William (Lia) Thomas. He couldn’t hack it with the big boys and then destroyed nearly every female swimming record since the beginning of time, because…shocker, he’s a dude pretending to be a woman. Why did parents accept their daughter coming in second to a dude?
Any boy will cream the girls on the field, on the track, on the court. In fact, in 2017 the FC Dallas under-15 boys squad beat the U.S. Women’s national soccer team! We’ve all been there in our youth and have all seen it with our own eyes. Very rarely did we have a girl who could play football with the boys after school. Why? Because we are made different. Some girls played with us, but we knew better than to really tackle the snot out of them.
Tomboys are not boys, they are girls who like guy stuff, maybe things like sports. It doesn’t make them able to take a hit from a boy of their same age and not become part of the field. It doesn’t mean they won’t be permanently injured because a boy cross checks them into the glass, breaking their wider than male, birthing hips. It’s the reality of life and these far-left idiots are trying to change reality with policy. Just wait until a girl is maimed by a boy on the field and those parents sue the school for allowing this nonsense. But, that girl's life may be ruined.
The MPA further dives into the occult with this part of Section 12. “Gender Identity refers to a person’s deeply-felt internal sense of being male or female, or some other gender, regardless of whether the individual’s appearance, expression or behavior differs from that traditionally associated with the individual’s sexassigned at birth.” Uh…what did I just read!?
First, sex is not “assigned at birth,” it is observed. It’s really, really easy to figure it out in the hospital room. If I deeply feel like I am a 100 pound, black trans-woman lesbian, does that make me one? Can I now go dominate female pick up basketball games in Bangor? The woke is strong with organizations like the MPA, because parents have not stepped in to define reality.
The MPA goes even further into the loony bin. “Birth-assigned Gender: Gender assigned at birth based on the anatomical, physiological and chromosomal characteristics associated with males, females, or intersex people.” Again, it’s sex, not gender and it’s observed, not assigned. Jesus.
Then, someone in the MPA must not have noticed they added in this line, under B in Section 12: “Although there are many exceptions to the rule, most high school aged boys have a distinct athletic advantage competing against their female counterparts.” The only “exception to the rule” is a really, really effeminate boy, who simply sucks at sports. But even that guy who sucks at sports, still maintains a biological advantage over girls. Very rarely do we ever see a girl want to play on a boys team. This may work in the younger years, but as they develop, girls simply can’t hang onto their advantage of being a good player, over the dominance of biology. It’s almost always a boy wanting to play on the girls teams. Weird, right!?
The MPA goes on to try and define the procedure for mentally insane parents to submit a form saying their weakling boy is going to pretend to be a girl and they plan on enabling his mental illness for years to come, etc. Oh, the virtue signaling parents are so proud of little Ken out there on the girls field hockey team in his little boy-skirt! It’s just pathetic. These are bad parents, the same parents you will see masking their kids up in another few weeks. The sheep.
At this point, I’ve hit on the 35th instance of the word “gender” and I’m already exhausted from the mental anguish of reading the MPA’s incompetence. Everyone in this group of woketards should be immediately removed from serving in any capacity for the taxpayers.
This Maine school board member goes on to sum up this DrummondWoodsum training portion of gender and bathrooms with, “If little Susie walked into school one day and said, ‘Uncle Johnny is trans and shares the bathroom with me and shows off his junk to me,’ every teacher would be calling child protective (services). And yet, if little johnny does the same thing in a little girls bathroom, suddenly the teachers say, ‘Bad little Susie, for being so homophobic!’ Next time, little Susie won’t say a word, and she is being set up to be sexually assaulted later in life. Because that is what the school is teaching her.”
I’ve said this many times. I don’t want to be the father who tells another father, “I told you so,” when their daughter is raped by a boy, pretending to be a girl in the girls room, or in the girls locker room. I’ve met with fathers placed in this very situation, and the stories these families have shared are horrifying, to put it lightly.
What about the fear and shock when your daughter’s innocence is lost by a naked boy, or a grown man is staring at her private parts in the shower of the girls room?
When do parents wake up and take action against these malicious public K-12 schools and these taxpayer fed groups? When do you demand that these policies are deleted from the policy manual? When do you flip the local school board from far-left people, to common-sense minded people?
Is it after, or before your daughter is raped and later kills herself due to the sexual trauma?
As I tell every parent, pull your kids now from these schools, or fight everyday for their education like your child’s life depends on it…because it does. Just realize what you are up against and how your local school board is complicit in the lies provided by the lawyers.