Boy wins girls high school track events in Maine

: World Tribune; 11 May 2025; Hits: 17

by WorldTribune Staff, May 11, 2025 Real World News

Maine high schools continue to defy President Donald Trump’s executive order which bans males from competing in women’s sports.

Last week, a high school junior in the state who is a biological male won two events at a girls track meet.

According to Outkick, North Yarmouth Academy junior Soren Stark-Chessa won the girls 800 meter and 1600 meter (mile) runs. He won the latter race by almost 20 seconds.

The 800 meters was a closer race with Yarmouth High’s Lilah Connor finishing second by one-and-a-half seconds. In a video (below), Connor is seen shaking her head in dismay after crossing the finish line.

He won his events against his female competitors with times of 2:43.31 and a 5:57.27.

Dave Huber wrote for The College Fix: G”iven that the meet appeared to have been a local one between three schools, I had a sneaky suspicion he did ‘just enough’ to win … without making it look too lopsided.

“Lo and behold it appears I was right: Last year as a sophomore, Stark-Chessa won the state ‘Class C’ girls 800 championship with a time of 2:19.72 (ten seconds ahead of the second place girl, which is rather substantial for that distance), and finished 3rd in the 1600 with a 5:10.08, both substantially faster.

Had he run in those boys’ championship competitions, Stark-Chessa would have finished 19th in the 800 meters and 22nd in the 1600. He competed on the boys’ track team in 9th grade, according to Outkick, and began identifying as a girl between his freshman and sophomore years.

Stark-Chessa also has been an all-state “girls” cross country runner and an all-conference “girls” Nordic skier. In the fall of 2023, a parent of two girls who raced against Stark-Chessa in cross country said her kids were in a “lose-lose situation.”

“They don’t want to pretend Stark-Chessa is a girl and congratulate him on beating females,” the parent said according to The Lion. “But they fear they will be seen as ‘hateful’ or bad sports otherwise.”

Stark-Chessa’s parents are both college professors.

His dad, Frank Chessa, is a professor of medicine and associate course director of ethics and professionalism at Tufts University School of Medicine and also serves as director of clinical ethics at Maine Medical Center the Gender Care Clinic of which provides “treatment to patients of all ages with both pediatric and adult services.”

His mother, Susan Stark, teaches philosophy at Bates College where she’s at work on a pair of projects, according to her faculty page. The first is “a defense of the moral and social imperative of making reparations, not only for institutionalized slavery, colonialism, and genocide, but also for ongoing racist policies and white supremacy.”

🚨🚨🚨Insanity. Yesterday a trans-identified boy, Soren Stark-Chessa, racing for North Yarmouth Academy/Maine Coast Waldorf High School, won 1st place in the girls’ 800 meter and the girls’ 1600 meter run.

Watch the expression on the face of the 1st place girl, Lilah Conner,… pic.twitter.com/hvXLHqbkde

— Beth Bourne (@bourne_beth2345) May 3, 2025