Almost 100 people turned out at Curtis Library in Brunswick to hear Wayne Maines, a self-described political conservative with an air force background, talk about his long battle to secure fundamental human and legal rights for Nicole Maines–his trans-gender daughter. One of the most public aspects of this fight was Nicole’s ultimately successful legal struggle to be allowed to use a girl’s bathroom at her school in Orono.
Jim Bleikamp began the interview by asking Wayne how he has been fundamentally changed by this long battle.