This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
In a stunning revelation of the warped thinking behind the transgender agenda, a Maine select board member publicly has accused parents who oppose boys in locker roomss and showers with their young daughters of having "pedophilic tendencies."
The wild and perhaps injurious claim came from Leslie Trentalange who spoke remotely to a school board meeting in Kennebunk.
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A report at the Maine Wire said Trentalange, the Kennebunk Select Board's vice chair and a liaison to the RSU 21 school board, immediately was the subject of complaints to the select board, as chairman Miriam Whitehouse confirmed it has gotten demands that Trentalange quit or be removed.
Whitehouse confirmed the remarks "were not a reflection of her role on the board, nor did she intend to speak for the select board."
"I understand that members of the public sometimes do not see us separately from our official select board roles, but we do not give up our rights as citizens when we decide to serve on the select board," she added.
But resident Melissa McCue-McGrath told the board in a letter, "Accusing her constituents of being sex offenders is one of the worst charges someone can make."
She pointed out, "Even prisoners go after pedophiles in jail. This is a dangerous assertion."
The district recently was in headlines when a teacher "expressed a hope that the assassinated conservative commentator Charlie Kirk would 'rest in hell,'" the report said.
Federal Title IX antidiscrimination standards require schools to designate sports and private spaces by biological sex, although state officials in Maine repeatedly have affirmed opening up girls showers to boys at will.
Under its "Corruption Chronicles" category, Judicial Watch wrote such a wild claim "is shocking even for an attention-seeking liberal politician."
The report said, "The Maine public official who blasted concerned parents is also sticking to her highly offensive words, refusing to apologize for calling them pedophiles because they want to protect their children."
Trentalange's rant included, "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. … Their obsession with genitalia points not to caring for the students in this district, but perhaps to an underlying guilt for their own pedophilic tendencies. There is a registry for that."
School board chair Matthew Stratford attempted to interrupt Trentalange's tirade, according to the local news report and video of the meeting, and called her comments "inappropriate," the report said.
But she kept talking.
"The unhinged lawmaker insisted she did not think her comments were inappropriate and that she stood by them.," the report said.
The select board's code of conduct, the report confirms, "includes a provision that states 'discussions should be conducted in a professional manner with all participants treating each other with civility and respect.'"
The report continued, "Accusing parents of being pedophiles for trying to shield their girls from the detriments of the transgender revolution does not seem to demonstrate integrity required under the town's code for elected officials."
