Overview
- Kennebunk Select Board member Leslie Trentalange said parents seeking to bar trans-identified boys from girls’ sports show “pedophilic tendencies,” drawing gasps at the October meeting.
- Board Chair Matthew Stratford cut in to say the comments were inappropriate and told her to stop, according to accounts of the session.
- Trentalange immediately defended her remarks, saying she stood by them, then later issued a limited apology that did not retract the claims.
- She has resigned her liaison role with the school board after the backlash, though she remains on the town’s Select Board.
- Stratford later issued a statement stressing there is no place for harassment, discriminatory language, or disrespectful speech during meetings without naming Trentalange.