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Maine Rep. Laurel Libby In February, he became the national figure in the movement to keep trans athletes out of girls’ sports.
This post denounced Libby and she knocked it down to the Supreme Court. she was I granted her voting rights It was returned by the Supreme Court on May 15th.
The trans athlete, whose submission was called by Libby on Tuesday, did not appear to compete in Maine’s National Athletics Championships, according to multiple witnesses.
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Maine Rep. Laurel Libby
Libby responded to the news in a statement from Fox News Digital.
“The biological man who won the Women’s National Championship yesterday chose not to participate in the Women’s Pole Vault at the Maine Class B Outdoor Track State Championship, and the girls justly won the state championship,” Libby said.
“Opening and podium placement for our girls should be determined not by the whims of others, but by their hard work and performance. All main girls should have a fair, safe and equal playing field guarantee.
Fox News Digital reached out to Greely High School for comment.
The female athlete won all major medals at the Maine Women’s Athletics Finals event on Tuesday.
The Greeley High School Trans Athlete and another representative of North Yarmouth Academy competed against the backdrop of political conflict, marking the end of the state’s controversial athletics season.
The current law in Maine has led to girls across the state expressing their rage, as at least two trans athletes have. I won the competition In athletics, cross-country and Scandinavian skiing have been in recent years.
Presque Isle student Hailey Himes previously told Fox News Digital that Libby had posted about where Greely High School Trans Athlete took first place in Girls’ Pole Vault.
“I saw this male Paul Vaulter on the podium. We all seemed to be looking at, ‘I’m sure we’re sure it’s not a girl. There’s no way to be a girl,'” Himes said. “It was really disappointing, especially for the girls on the podium rather than the first place, so I motivated them to fight for them.”
Maine teens after enduring the chaos of trans athletes in high school
Himes along with his track and field teammates Cassidy Carlisle, Lucy Cheney and Carlyn Buck marched in Augusta’s capital in early May to meet with GOP leaders on the issue, lobby the state legislature, and pass a bill banning biological men from girls’ sports.
Buck added, “It’s not just the point, but because they already know that the outcome is being determined, so they’ll feel discouraged when they’re placed in an event against them.”
The state’s democratic leaders are fighting the fight with the president as Libby fights against the legal battle, including Supreme Court intervention to overturn her accusations Donald Trump’s Management of the broader issues of transathletes to include inclusion in women’s sports.
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the state in response to Gov. Janet Mills openly denying Trump’s executive order “protecting men from women’s sports.”
On Tuesday, a federal judge set a trial date for April 1, 2026 for the case.
The Trump administration has said the Maine Department of Education is violating the federal Title IX anti-discrimination law by allowing transgender girls to join the girls’ team.
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Meanwhile, Maine leaders refused to agree to a written amendment to keep biological men out of women’s sports, citing protections for gender identity in Maine Human Rights Act.
a Surveys by research The American Parents Union found that of around 600 registered Maine voters, 63% said school sports participation should be based on biological sex, while 66% agreed that “it’s fair to limit women’s sports to biological women.”
The poll also found that 60% of residents support a voting measure that restricts participation in Women and girls’ sports Biological woman. This included 64% of parents with children under the age of 18 and 66% of parents.
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