Male Player Scores 15 Goals in Maine Girls' Soccer. Two Rival Players Call In the Feds

A girls' soccer team in South Portland, Maine, won three games last year. This fall it has won 11, made school history in the playoffs and climbed into the regional semifinals. One reason, according to a federal complaint two Maine girls plan to file Monday: a male freshman who joined the girls' varsity team this season and is credited with 15 goals and 10 assists.

The girls are Reagan Wilson, a junior at Fryeburg Academy, and Morgan Clark, a junior and varsity captain at Windham High School. Both of their teams played South Portland this fall. Their lawyers at Alliance Defending Freedom say Maine is breaking federal law, and they are asking President Trump's Department of Education to step in.

What the girls are filing

OutKick's Jackson Thompson broke the story Friday after obtaining ADF's draft complaint, which goes to the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights on Monday, Nov. 2. It names the Maine Department of Education, the Maine Principals' Association, which runs high school sports, and two school districts, South Portland and Windham Raymond. It asks federal officials to investigate, force new eligibility rules and fix past violations.

"Despite all their hard work and discipline, Reagan and Morgan may be denied the thrill of victory because Maine lets males with inherent biological advantages compete on girls' teams," the draft says, as quoted by OutKick. It ends with a plea: "Reagan and Morgan urge OCR to step in, stop this violation of federal law, and protect the right of women and girls to compete on a level playing field."

ADF's own announcement put it more bluntly. "Every time a male athlete competes on a female team, the athletic opportunities of deserving girls are destroyed," said ADF Legal Counsel Tavia Bruxellas McAlister. "This violates Title IX by depriving female athletes of an equal opportunity to compete and win in their own sports."

The scoreboard

The draft's scoring chart, as described by OutKick, credits the freshman with a hand in roughly half of South Portland's goals: three goals in a 7-0 opener over Portland, both goals in a 2-0 win over Gorham, two goals and two assists in a 9-0 rout of Biddeford, three assists against Noble and a goal against Falmouth.

The turnaround is real. The Portland Press Herald reported South Portland went 3-9-2 in 2025 and missed the playoffs. On Oct. 27 the team beat Bonny Eagle 1-0 in double overtime for the first regional quarterfinal win in a program that dates to 1987. That set up a semifinal Friday against unbeaten Scarborough.

Each girl has her own receipt. Wilson's Fryeburg team lost to South Portland on Aug. 29. Clark's Windham team, a regional runner-up last year, played South Portland to a 1-1 tie on Oct. 1, a result the complaint says cost Windham in the rankings. Both girls plan to play varsity again next year, and both expect to face the same player again.

The rule that lets it happen

Maine's high school sports body wrote the door wide open. Under the Maine Principals' Association's Gender Identity Participation Policy, a student whose gender identity differs from his or her sex simply declares it to the school. "No medical records or official documents shall be requested or required to establish a student's gender identity," the policy says. The student can then play "in accordance with either their birth sex or in accordance with their gender identity, but not both."

In plain English, a boy can play on the girls' team in the fall as long as he doesn't also try out for the boys' team in the winter. That is the main limit. ADF's draft says the effect is that males "can win not only in the male category but also in the female category." The association's executive director, Mike Burnham, has said Trump's order and "our Maine state Human Rights Act are in conflict, and the Maine Principal's Association will continue to follow state law as it pertains to gender identity," according to a federal Health and Human Services finding against Maine.

Maine already told Trump no

This is not Maine's first warning. At a White House meeting with governors on Feb. 21, 2025, President Trump asked Gov. Janet Mills, to her face, whether Maine would follow his order keeping men out of women's sports. She said she was complying with state and federal law. Trump told her she would lose federal funding. Her reply: "See you in court."

Trump's team took her up on it. On April 16, 2025, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced enforcement actions against Maine, and the Justice Department sued the state's Education Department under Title IX. That case, United States v. Maine Department of Education, is still working its way through federal court in Maine, more than 18 months later. The new complaint adds two girls with names, games and scores to a fight the state has dragged out.

What the Supreme Court settled

The legal ground has shifted since Mills dug in. On June 30, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in West Virginia v. B.P.J. that states can keep girls' sports for girls. "Title IX allows schools to provide separate women's and men's sports teams defined by biological sex," the Court held, and "the Constitution and Title IX do not require an overhaul of women's and girls' sports throughout America."

That ruling answered whether states may protect girls' teams. It did not decide the flip side: whether a state like Maine breaks Title IX when it lets males onto those teams. That is exactly the question Wilson and Clark want the Education Department to answer, and this administration has already said yes once by suing.

What happens next

The girls will speak Monday at 10 a.m. at the Welcome Center of the Maine State House in Augusta, alongside ADF, the Independent Council on Women's Sports, Maine Girl Dads and Protect Girls Sports in Maine. That last group is resubmitting its citizen referendum, "An Act to Designate School Sports Participation and Facilities by Sex," after OutKick reported its first petition fell 532 valid signatures short of this year's ballot.

The timing is pointed. The press conference lands one day before Maine voters pick a U.S. senator. Mills told Trump she would see him in court. Two high school juniors are now asking Washington to settle it first.