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Maine authorities Rep. Laurel Libby became a nationalist fig successful the question to support trans athletes retired of girls' sports successful February erstwhile she called retired a trans jock for Greely High School who won a girls' rod vault competition.
The station resulted successful Libby being censured, which she fought each the mode up to the Supreme Court to overturn. She was granted her voting rights backmost by the Supreme Court connected May 15.
On Tuesday, the trans jock that Libby's station called retired did not amusement up to vie successful the Maine Class A way and tract authorities championships, per aggregate witnesses.
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Maine lawmaker Laurel Libby
Libby reacted to the quality successful a connection to Fox News Digital.
"Yesterday a biologic antheral who won the girls’ State Championship successful February chose not to enactment successful the girls’ rod vault astatine Maine’s Class B Outdoor Track State Championship, and a miss rightfully won the State Championship," Libby said.
"Our girls’ opportunities and podium placements should beryllium decided by their hard enactment and performance, not the whims of others. All Maine girls should person the warrant of a fair, harmless and level playing field, which is not the lawsuit arsenic agelong arsenic our laws let biologic males to enactment successful girls’ sports."
Fox News Digital has reached retired to Greely High School for comment.
Female athletes took each the large medals successful Maine's girls' way and tract finals events Tuesday, aft the contention was delayed from Saturday owed to weather.
It marked the extremity of a contentious way and tract play for the state, arsenic the Greely High School trans jock and different 1 representing North Yarmouth Academy competed against the backdrop of governmental conflict.
Maine's existent laws person resulted successful girls crossed the authorities expressing outrage, arsenic astatine slightest 2 trans athletes person won competitions successful way and field, cross-country and Nordic skiing successful caller years.
Presque Isle pupil Hailey Himes antecedently told Fox News Digital that she was astatine the February authorities conscionable that Libby posted astir wherever the Greely High School trans jock won archetypal spot successful girls' rod vault.
"I watched this antheral rod vaulter basal connected the podium and we were each conscionable similar looking we were similar ‘We’re beauteous definite that's not a girl. There's nary mode that's a girl,'" Himes said. "It was truly discouraging, particularly for the girls connected the podium not successful archetypal place. So that motivated maine to combat for them."
Himes, on with her way and tract teammates Cassidy Carlisle, Lucy Cheney and Carrlyn Buck, marched connected the authorities superior of Augusta successful aboriginal May to conscionable with GOP leaders connected the contented and lobby the authorities legislature to walk bills banning biologic males from girls' sports.
Buck added, "It's not conscionable astir the points, it's besides that our teammates are going to consciousness discouraged erstwhile placed successful an lawsuit against them due to the fact that they're going successful already knowing that the result is decided, with playing against a biologic antheral who is biologically stronger than them, truthful they person nary chance."
As Libby fights a ineligible conflict that included Supreme Court involution to person her censure overturned, the state's Democratic enactment is warring a conflict against President Donald Trump's medication implicit the broader contented of trans jock inclusion successful girls' sports.
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a suit against the authorities successful effect to Gov. Janet Milles openly defying Trump's "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" enforcement order.
A national justice connected Tuesday acceptable a proceedings day of April 1, 2026, for that lawsuit.
Trump’s medication has said the Maine Department of Education is violating the national Title IX anti-discrimination instrumentality by allowing transgender girls to enactment connected girls’ teams.
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Meanwhile, Maine's leaders person refused to hold to a written amendment to support biologic males retired of girls' sports, citing the Maine Human Rights Act's protections to sex identity.
A survey by the American Parents Coalition recovered that retired of astir 600 registered Maine voters, 63% said schoolhouse sports information should beryllium based connected biologic sex, and 66% agreed it is "only just to restrict women’s sports to biologic women."
The canvass besides recovered that 60% of residents would enactment a ballot measurement limiting participation in women’s and girls' sports to biological females. This included 64% of independents and 66% of parents with kids nether property 18.
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Jackson Thompson is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital. He antecedently worked for ESPN and Business Insider. Jackson has covered the Super Bowl and NBA Finals, and has interviewed iconic figures Usain Bolt, Rob Gronkowski, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Mike Trout, David Ortiz and Roger Clemens.
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