School boards disregard their lawyers to rebel against Maine’s transgender policies

Roger Moulton used to place a monthly phone call to his local school district’s law firm to tell them how much he disliked them.

“If I had my own personal call, we’d fire Drummond Woodsum and hire anybody else in the state,” he said in an interview, arguing the Portland-based firm is “destroying the moral fabric of our public education.”

Since joining Regional School Unit 73’s board in May, the Livermore Falls man helped pass a resolution updating the district’s Title IX policy to bar transgender students from sports and private spaces that align with their gender identities.

Drummond Woodsum has long represented the lion’s share of Maine school districts. It is also a target of conservative ire after advising boards against changing policies to contradict the state’s protections for tr