The 2025 Miss Maine pageant will feature Bill Belichick's 24-year-old girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, looking to claim the crown after finishing as runner-up last year.

But if the early fan voting is any indication, Hudson could be in line for a lower finish. 

The online vote, which allows the public to vote for a favorite contestant for $1 per vote, showed Hudson way behind for first place with just over 220 votes at the time of publication. The model who wins the online vote will also win the People’s Choice Award and an automatic entry into the pageant's semifinals.

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Ahead of Hudson is Isabelle St. Cyr with over 440 votes at the time of publication. St. Cyr is the first transgender model to compete in the Miss Maine competition in its history after previously winning the local Miss Monson USA pageant in the Maine town of Monson. 

"When I started cheerleading I had all the odds stacked against me," St. Cyr wrote in a March 25 Facebook post.  "So much pushback, so many people telling me it wasn't a space for me. But I fought for what I loved and I ended up being a very successful cheerleader, winning state and national titles and inspiring people to join even if they hadn't been doing it their whole life.

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"I sense a similar trajectory in my ongoing journey with pageants. I believe I have everything it takes to be Miss Maine USA and I know that no amount of experience can match a true passion and drive to accomplish something."

Maine has been a battleground for the ongoing national conflict between blue state officials and the federal government over the issue of trans athletes in women's and girls sports since February. 

Gov. Janet Mills and education officials have taken a hard stand to enable trans inclusion amid immense federal pressure by President Donald Trump's administration.

The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the state over the issue.

Hudson is competing to represent Maine fishing families after her family's fishing business went bankrupt when she was a child. 

"As the daughter of displaced fishermen, I care to use my voice to protect the fleeting tradition and heritage of Maine fishing families, to prevent others from going through the same plight as what mine had to go through," Hudson wrote on Instagram.

On Saturday afternoon, the Maine online vote page crashed, so updated results are unknown. 

The most recent leader in the online vote before the crash was University of Southern Maine student Lexi Bjork with over 1,400 votes. 

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A girls' track meet in California was turned into a political rally on Saturday amid a growing controversy over a trans athlete who has dominated in the girls' high-jump, long-jump and triple-jump this season. 

The rally came less than two days after three of the state's esteemed Christian high schools sent a letter to the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) challenging its longstanding policy that allows biological males in girls' sports. 

JSerra Catholic High School, Orange Lutheran High School and Crean Lutheran High School sent a joint letter to the CIF Thursday, referencing the trans athlete who competed in Saturday's state semifinal prelims. 

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"For young women, CIF’s Gender Identity Policy means lost opportunities and an unlevel playing field. The consequences of this Policy will be felt this weekend as CIF’s state semi-final competitions for track and field events take place. Star female athletes, some of whom attend our schools, will soon compete in multiple track and field events against a male athlete who self-identifies as a female," the letter read. 

"CIF’s Gender Identity Policy also fosters an environment that is increasingly hostile to religious member schools. CIF’s expectation that all faith-based schools facilitate the CIF Gender Identity Policy puts religious schools in the untenable position of adhering to the tenets of their faith in their classrooms and communities but practicing something contrary to their faith on their athletic fields." 

The letter went on to suggest that some of the female athletes competing for the three Christian schools considered not competing against the trans athlete in Saturday's semifinal prelims. 

And then prior to Saturday's meet at Yorba Linda High School, multiple girls' athletes, parents and school officials spoke at a press conference organized by California Family Council outreach director Sophia Lorey. 

"No matter how hard we train, how many hours we put in, reality will always set in that men and women are different," said Olivia Viola of Crean Lutheran. "To me, this just doesn't seem fair. CIF is doing nothing to protect us female athletes." 

The CIF is currently under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education for allowing trans athletes to compete in girls' sports, and potential Title IX violations. 

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California was one of the first states to openly defy President Donald Trump's "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" executive order after he signed it on Feb. 5. 

"The CIF provides students with the opportunity to belong, connect, and compete in education-based experiences in compliance with California law [Education Code section 221.5. (f)] which permits students to participate in school programs and activities, including athletic teams and competitions, consistent with the student’s gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on the student’s records," the CIF previously said in a statement to Fox News Digital. 

California Governor Gavin Newsom said during an episode of his podcast that he believes trans athletes competing with girls is "deeply unfair." But the governor still justified policies that enable it for the sake of empathy for the trans community. 

The state has seen multiple controversies erupt over the past year regarding the issue, and many other residents and even some schools are taking stands against the state officials enforcing the inclusion policies. 

The Redlands Unified school board in San Bernardino voted in late April to adopt a new policy that would keep transgender athletes out of girls’ sports. 

A bipartisan survey by the Public Policy Institute of California found that the majority of California residents oppose biological male trans athletes competing in women's sports. 

That figure included more than 70% of the state's school parents.

"Most Californians support requiring transgender athletes to compete on teams matching the sex they were assigned at birth," the poll stated. 

"Solid majorities of adults (65%) and likely voters (64%) support requiring that transgender athletes compete on teams that match the sex they were assigned at birth, not the gender they identify with. An overwhelming majority of public school parents (71%) support such a requirement."

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