A superintendent in rural Washington County quit after her school board voted last week to eliminate protections for transgender students in the latest case of a district aligning with President Donald Trump to buck state law.

It capped a dramatic episode in the Danforth-based Maine School Administrative District 14 that began with a teacher reportedly resigning last month over the district’s policies governing transgender students. After roughly 100 community members attended a meeting last Monday, the board voted unanimously to overturn them and got a standing ovation.

“We are in progress,” school board chair Felicia Cowger said in an interview, declining to comment further.

The school district’s superintendent, Margaret White, resigned after the policies were passed. She could not be

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