this insanity appears to be more widespread than you might imagine but here's one illustration of one reason why it must be stopped, and rolled back; 

More transgender sports insanity has reared its head, this time in Maine. Maine Coast Waldorf School sophomore Soren Stark-Chessa competed as a male last year, but now calls himself a girl and competes as a female.

Switching genders has done a lot for Stark-Chessa’s athletic career. After ranking in the 170s as a male, the cross-country athlete now ranks 4th in the state as a female. At the Maine XC Festival of Champions in Belfast on September 30, Stark-Chessa placed 5th in the girls’ 5,000-meter competition. His time of 18:11:35 would have placed him 143rd in the boys’ competition.

Stark-Chessa’s father, Frank Chessa, is the director of clinical ethics at Maine Medical Center, which prescribes sex-change hormones and puberty blockers to children through the Gender Clinic at Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital in Portland.

To make matters worse for the confused young man, his mother, Susan Stark, is a professor at nearby Bates College whose focus appears to be on so-called “woke” issues such as reparations, anti-racism, and inclusion issues.

Stark’s list of published works includes: “Overcoming a Puzzle about Inclusion and Anti-Racism”; “Taking Responsibility for Oppression: Affirmative Action and Racial Injustice”; and “A Change of Heart: Moral Emotions, transformation and moral virtue.”

Some parents in the cross-country and track community are outraged at the unfairness of allowing a boy to compete against their daughters.......more......