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Two-Spirit school board candidate becomes first trans official elected in Maine
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metroweekly.comMaine Public Radio that they decided to run for school board at the urging of community members and the urging of tribal youth.
They say students wanted more access to Passamaquoddy culture and language.“The education system treats our own culture as supplementary, as an extracurricular activity that the kids are allowed to do, instead of treating Passamaquoddy culture and history as one of the main priorities in the education system,” Neptune told Maine Public Radio. “These youth concerns, on top of community members asking me to run, those are my two motivating reasons for running for this office.”MaineTransNet, a trans nonprofit organization, was the first to recognize Neptune’s historic win in a post on its Facebook page.
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