A group seeking to restrict transgender students' participation in school sports and access to facilities is making a second attempt to put its citizen initiative before Maine voters.

Protect Girls Sports in Maine resubmitted petition signatures Monday in Augusta, hoping to qualify its proposed referendum for the 2027 ballot.

"Our democracy will not be stopped," said Leyland Streiff, the group's principal officer.

The proposed measure would require public school students to compete on sports teams and use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond with the sex listed on their original birth certificates.