An LGBTQ+ advocacy group in Maine has obtained hundreds of documents showing a school district’s anti-transgender policies were shaped by right-wing activists.

24 Allies, a citizens group in the Pine Tree State, made a sweeping public information request of Regional School Unit 24, then obtained 900 pages of internal documents between school district officials and two right-wing political groups. Those included Maine First, a conservative political organization founded by anti-transformer Republican state lawmaker Larry Lockman, and the Maine Policy Institute, a so-called parental rights organization.