Out Maine, Controversial Group Pushing Gender Theory in Schools, Saw Taxpayer Funding Increase Under Mills – The Maine Wire

Taxpayer funding for Out Maine, a far left nonprofit group, elevated considerably throughout Democratic Gov. Janet Mills’ first time period as governor, tax paperwork present. 

Out Maine, a Rockland-based group, reported receiving greater than $215,000 in taxpayer cash in 2020, in line with the group’s most up-to-date Type 990. The group additionally reported revenue price greater than $37,000 on “coaching and youth registration charges” in addition to $485,000 in personal contributions.

Taxpayer {dollars} flowing to Out Maine have elevated yearly since 2016, the primary 12 months it reported receiving authorities funding. In 2019, the group received $112,690 in authorities grants. In 2018, that quantity was $62,726. All instructed, the group has acquired authorities grants price almost $400,000 beneath the Mills administration.

The group has advocated in protection of maintaining Gender Queer, a comic book e-book that depicts minors having oral and anal intercourse, in Maine’s faculties. Images obtained by The Maine Wire present the group has additionally partnered with Mills’ Dept. of Schooling to place fliers in not less than one Maine faculty conveying radical left-wing theories about gender and human sexuality, together with to kids as younger as kindergarten.

One set of fliers, posted within the Vinalhaven Ok-12 faculty, solicits kids as younger as 9 for a homosexual, lesbian, and transgender themed Zoom after faculty “hang around” that takes place on Wednesdays. Anybody with entry to a pc can join the occasion, with no parental consent required, although it’s unclear if this system continues to be occurring. 

One other poster, additionally out there to elementary faculty kids, describes the assorted sexual points of interest and genders college students’ may select from, together with pansexual, asexual, transgender and cisgender. 

The push by Mills Dept. of Schooling and companions like Out Maine to put sexualized content material in entrance of younger kids has develop into a flashpoint in gubernatorial and state legislative elections. 

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Conservative PACs and organizations have spent closely drawing consideration to the unconventional content material in faculties and the Mills administrations’ obvious help for the sexually themed books and fliers.

Regionally, conservative outcry has led to a number of contentious faculty board conferences, with dad and mom and taxpayers protesting towards sexually express content material being supplied to their children with out their information or consent.

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Though some cities have succeeded in having sexually express supplies faraway from school rooms and libraries, most faculty boards have sided with activists and teams like Out Maine.