Protecting Our Girls' Rights in Maine
Join the coalition of 8,000+ Maine Girl Dads fighting to protect sex-based rights for our girls, ensuring private spaces and competitive sports in our schools are designated by sex.
WHO WE ARE
ABOUT MAINE
GIRL DADS
Maine Girl Dads is a coalition of more than 8,000 fathers, and counting, who have banded together over a common cause: protecting the dignity, opportunity, and privacy of our daughters. Simply put, we want districts across Maine to designate private spaces and competitive sports in our schools by sex. No more males in female spaces or sports.
Our stance is purely paternal, not remotely political, and grounded in common sense. Sex matters. Our daughters matter.
We’ve helped shift policies in multiple school districts (MSAD 52, RSU 73, RSU 70, Baileyville, Danforth, and Richmond) but we knew from the start that district-by-district change would never be enough.
OUR JOURNEY
We started by going to the system that was supposed to protect our girls. We petitioned the Maine Principals’ Association to reinstate sex-based policies in school athletics. They refused to act.
So we went to Augusta. We urged the state legislature to pass commonsense protections for girls’ sports and private spaces. They passed nothing.
When every institution failed our daughters, we took matters into our own hands. Maine Girl Dads helped launch the Protect Girls Sports in Maine ballot referendum, a citizen-led initiative to harmonize state law with Federal Title IX, ensuring the end to sex-based discrimination in schools across the entire state.
And Mainers responded, with over 82,00 signatures. But months of lawfare threw out 1,400 valid signatures, leaving us 532 short of the 2026 ballot, and time ran out for our appeal.
So, we’re re-submitting for the November 2027 ballot. We only need 532 more signatures, but we’re collecting 5,000. Now, we need you for one weekend: 9/26 & 9/27.
What You can do
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DONATE
Support our efforts to be on the ballot in 2027.
Spread the Word
Talk to your neighbors, your friends, your fellow parents.
COLLECT SIGNATURES
Join us 9/26 & 9/27, or contact us to find where to sign.
Your state needs you. Your local community needs you. Our daughters need you.
Join us. Raise your voice. And together, we dads can deliver lasting change across Maine.
THE BALLOT INITIATIVE
PROTECT GIRLS' SPORTS IN MAINE: The road to the 2027 ballot
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