Portland Press-Herald Names Transgender Girls’ Cross Country Runner To All-State Team

Portland Press-Herald Names Transgender Girls’ Cross Country Runner To All-State Team

A newspaper in Maine named a biological male to its girls' cross country all-state team last weekend.

The Portland Press Herald featured Soren Stark-Chessa, a sophomore at Maine Coast Waldorf School, as one of 15 runners on its "Girls' cross country: 2023 Varsity Maine All-State team."

Free (Or Nearly Free) Contraception For Everybody, Maura Healey Says
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Free (Or Nearly Free) Contraception For Everybody, Maura Healey Says

Matthew McDonald

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey joined five other Democratic governors in calling for the federal government to require that all forms of contraception be provided free of charge or close to that through all private health insurance plans subject to Obamacare, Medicaid, and Medicare.

"Contraception is essential preventive healthcare," states the letter, referring to pills and other methods of attempting to prevent a woman from getting pregnant through sexual intercourse.

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