Republican Maine lawmaker sues over censure following viral post about transgender student athlete
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A Republican Maine state representative has filed a lawsuit alleging the state’s House speaker and other Democrats violated her First Amendment rights and disenfranchised her constituents by censuring her last month and barring from speaking or voting on the House floor.
A Republican Maine state representative has filed a lawsuit alleging the state’s House speaker and other Democrats violated her First Amendment rights and disenfranchised her constituents by censuring her last month and barring from speaking or voting on the House floor. State Rep. Laurel Libby has been an outspoken critic of Maine’s state policy allowing transgender girls to compete in girls’ sports. Libby recently posted on social media to draw attention to the Maine high school girls’ indoor track and field state championship, where a student who competed as a boy last year but now identifies as transgender took first place in girls’ pole vault. That first-place finish propelled the student’s team to win the championship by a single point. Libby’s post included the student’s name and photographs. While Libby was criticized for naming the student, her lawsuit notes, “The Championship was a public event, was streamed online, and the names, schools and photographs of the winners were posted publicly.” The post received national attention and prompted a heated exchange between Democratic Maine Gov. Jill Mills and President Donald Trump over transgender athletes. Mills told the president “See you in court” after he said he would deny federal funding to the state if it refused to comply with his executive order banning transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports. Three federal agencies have also launched investigations into the Maine Department of Education and its compliance with Title IX.
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