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Posted on 11/03/2025 7:38:24 PM PST by Morgana
A school board member in Maine has been slammed for saying that parents with concerns about trans-identified male students playing on their daughters' sports teams have "pedophilic tendencies." She made the comments during a school board meeting earlier in October.
Kennebunk Select Board Member Leslie Trentalange spoke up at the meeting, saying that critics of allowing boys to play in girls' sports have an "obsession" with the "private parts" in between students' legs. She said that parents who have "creepy obsessions" about the issue are not the "majority opinion."
She added in her comments that the parents are a "group who has made hate their only hobby" and "made" the board listen to speeches on the topic. "Their obsession with what private parts are sitting in between the legs of our students is nothing less than creepy and should absolutely be raising eyebrows in and around our school district," she added
Trentalange then claimed that the parents "clearly don't care about the well-being of the students" if they don't want trans players in girls' sports.
"For shame, their obsession with genitalia points not to caring for the students in this district, but perhaps toward an underlying guilt for their own pedophilic tendencies. There is a registry for that," she added, which drew a reaction of gasps in the room. Board Chair Member Matthew Stratford told her to stop speaking. "There is no place for that, Leslie," he said. "That was inappropriate."
Trentalange doubled down, responding: "I don’t think that was inappropriate at all, and I stand by my comments."
In a statement responding to the board member's outburst, Stratford said there is 'no place for harassment, discriminatory language, disrespectful words, or other disruptive speech or comments' during the school board meetings," but did not mention Trentalange specifically.
Trentalange later issued something of a half apology in a different meeting but also stood by the comments at the time. "If there are folks in the marginalized queer community who feel my message did not serve them, or hurt them in any way, it is that which I regret," said Trentalange. "I also regret the undue and undeserved backlash other members of the Select Board or town’s staff have felt over my comments as an individual." Trentalange also gave up her role on the school board amid backlash.
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I would like to know Leslie Trentalange’s education credentials. I suspect his call of other’s pedophilia may be the result of projection. It is like the young boy, after wetting the bed, blaming the dog for it.
Correction: I suspect her call of other’s pedophilia . . .
ONLY as liaison! She's STILL "Vice Chair!"
Vice Chair Leslie Trentalange has stepped down from her role as one of the Select Board’s two liaisons to RSU 21, following backlash over remarks she made about critics of the school district’s transgender athlete policy. At a Select Board meeting on Oct. 28, Trentalange said she would relinquish her position as a liaison to RSU 21 to “help avoid any confusion as to my role when attending School Board meetings.”Deserves to be pilloried.
Regards,
sounds like a projection attack.
i’d bet this female is a pedo.
She...looka lika man.
Wow! THERE is some leftwing projection...
Leftists tend to spout nonsense. This is typical of the tendency.
Maine has gone off the deep end and continues to get worse. Then again the whole North East is a liberal LGBTWRSTUVWXYZ shxt show.
I was born and raised in Maine but left 40 years ago. Wise decision. Brother still lives there, he’s older and liberal nutcase, social justice warrior (who can barely move he’s so fat) and BLM, no Kings supporter. I’ve spoken once to him since 2006 when he said my youngest daughter, who joined the Army would be coming home in a body bag.
She married a guy in the Army, got out and we now have 2 grandkids and they moved to be closer to the wife and I.
New England is a sad state of affairs...they’re up there with Oregon and Washington.
Why is this even a discussion? Who can possibly defend any of that tranny garbage? Its proponents should be repeatedly pummeled relentlessly. There simply is no discussion on this matter.
Yep.
Lol.
Toxic men are really just afraid. And Nazis. Lol.
Lady, you are a screwball...No, I don’t want my daughter getting dressed in a locker room with boys. We are NATURISTS and we still change in different locker rooms...
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