Censured Maine Lawmaker Urges Supreme Court Intervention As Transgender Athlete Dominates Girls' Track Meet

One Maine lawmaker is urging Supreme Court involution arsenic she remains entangled successful a ineligible conflict for her voting and speaking authorities successful nan authorities legislature aft speaking retired against allowing transgender athletes successful girls' sports. 

Republican State Rep. Laurel Libby, who was banned from voting connected bills and speaking aft a viral societal media station related to nan trans jock debate, sounded nan siren connected nan nationwide rumor while pleading for nan highest court to intervene. 

"I, on pinch two-thirds of my chap Mainers, work together that it's perfectly not fair, that biologic males are dominating successful women's sports, are pushing girls aside," Libby told Bill Hemmer connected Tuesday. "And see this, for a authorities wherever we're told this isn't happening, it's not a large deal, extremity making an rumor of it, this aforesaid jock has been dominating successful girls cross-country running, successful Nordic skiing, and now successful track."

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A girls' way meet successful Maine became nan taxable of wide contention aft a trans jock dominated aggregate moving events past week. 

Laurel Libby and Supreme Court Justices (Fox News Digital/Getty Images)

The trans-identifying jock who competed for North Yarmouth Academy successful Yarmouth, Maine, won nan girls' 800-meter and 1600-meter events. In October 2023, Fox News Digital reported that this jock was transgender. Fox News Digital has reached retired to North Yarmouth Academy for comment. 

The jock has been making nationalist headlines successful Maine making love backmost to that period aft jumping to 4th spot successful nan 5k section successful nan girls' class aft antecedently finishing 172nd among boys. The jock again made nationalist headlines for competing successful Nordic skiing and taking a podium spot successful Maine's High School State Nordic Skiing Championships this past February. 

"We're talking astir conscionable 1 athlete," Libby said. "Just 1 of these biologic antheral athletes pushing many, galore of our young women retired of nan measurement successful their ascent to nan podium."

Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau and Maine's Democrat mostly censured Libby for a societal media station earlier this year, successful which she identified a trans jock who had switched from competing pinch boys to competing against girls. She pointed retired that nan jock vanished 5th successful a boys' title conscionable 2 years earlier. 

They primitively offered to reconstruct her voting and speaking authorities if she apologized for nan post, but Libby told them correct distant she wouldn't apologize. 

"It's been much than 2 months that my constituents person not had a sound and ballot successful nan legislature," she said. "Two months of each clip that there's a rotation telephone vote, including connected nan Equal Rights Amendment, which addresses this issue, among others, I was not allowed to vote. So my constituents are being harmed."

"I will not beryllium allowed to correspond their interests because of exercising my First Amendment rights," she continued. 

Libby revenge a lawsuit against Fecteau connected March 11 successful consequence to nan censure, but Rhode Island U.S. District Court Judge Melissa DuBose ruled against Libby successful her lawsuit connected April 22. 

DuBose, appointed by erstwhile President Joe Biden successful January, ended up presiding complete nan lawsuit aft each territory judge successful Maine refused to return it. He ended up pinch nan case, and ruled successful favour of Fecteau. Then, nan 1st Circuit Court of Appeals besides ruled against Libby.

She is not letting nan ineligible setbacks extremity her, however, successful her conflict to protect First Amendment authorities and fairness successful women's sports. She wants her lawsuit to beryllium heard by nan Supreme Court to officially group nan grounds straight. 

"Just arsenic we saw nan United Kingdom, nan Supreme Court ruling complete there, that, indeed, a man is simply a man and a female is simply a woman," she said. "We request nan highest tribunal successful our onshore to reside this and reply that mobility erstwhile and for all, truthful that Maine girls and girls crossed nan state person a fair, safe, and level playing field."

Meanwhile, nan Justice Department announced a suit successful April against nan authorities of Maine for its continued defiance of Trump's executive bid to support biologic males retired of girls’ and women’s sports and violations of Title IX. 

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Libby attended nan property convention alongside Attorney General Pam Bondi and Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon. 

The Department of Agriculture trim national backing to nan state, which past sued nan administration. A national judge has already ruled nan backing must beryllium unfrozen. 

Fox News' Jackson Thompson and Lindsay Kornick contributed to this report.