Trump’s Patriot Games chose a New Hampshire girl to represent Maine after anti-trans audition video

When officials organizing President Donald Trump’s Patriot Games — a high school athletic competition created for Freedom 250’s Trump-aligned celebration of the nation’s 250th anniversary — chose athletes to represent each state, they selected a girl for Maine whose video submission touted her school’s refusal to play a team with a transgender athlete. Stranger still, she doesn’t attend high school in Maine.Local media reported that Maine’s female participant in the games was Rebekah Roberts, who identified herself in an audition tape posted online as a resident of Cornish, New Hampshire. It’s unclear how she ended up representing Maine in the competition, which is being held in Geneva, Ohio, and features high school athletes from across the country.Related: Trump's Education Department investigates schools for trans inclusion in sports Freedom 250 has organized its own slate of events marking the anniversary alongside America250, the bipartisan initiative overseen by the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission, which Congress established in 2016 to plan the national commemoration. The Patriot Games run from Sunday through Tuesday, with Trump scheduled to attend Tuesday night’s finale.In her audition video, Roberts focuses on an experience during her freshman year that pitted her school against a Vermont athletic league.“My freshman year, my school was removed from our state league because it chose to stand by American morals that people once died for,” she said.“Losing the opportunity to compete for two years was difficult, especially being my first high school year as I was figuring high school out. As the athlete, I missed the chance to experience the competition, teamwork, and memories that came with being part of that league. However, that experience taught me important lessons about standing firm in your values, even when there are challenges that come with it.”Related: Trump mocks cisgender women as weak in bizarre anti-trans sports ran