Maine’s camera voted to censor Laurel Libby representative on Tuesday night for a recent publication of social networks indicating that a transgender high school athlete won a girl’s competition.
The democratic majority of the House of Representatives of Maine, directed by President Ryan Fecteau, approved the resolution of censorship on Tuesday night in a 75-70 vote. Libby is no longer allowed to speak on the floor of the camera or vote until it emits an apology.
Libby told Pak Gazette Digital in an exclusive interview after the vote that does not plan to apologize for its recent publication.
After determining censorship, Fecteau told Libby that the camera members would take a break while Libby considered its apology.
“I said:” We don’t need to reassure us, “since I was going to continue talking about Maine’s girls,” Libby said.
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Libby’s publication arrived last Sunday when he pointed out that a transgender athletic athlete had occupied first place in a pole jumping competition of Maine’s girls after competing when he was a child a year earlier. The premise of Libby’s censorship by Maine’s house focused on the fact that he published a photo of a minor and provided the name of that child.
“It is a notable double standard since there are public photos of this individual in many places, on social networks and even some published by his school, and yes, this publication went viral, but this was a person who participated in a public event , who stood publicly on a podium and accepted a championship medal that legitimately belonged to the girls stopped at the second place, “Libby said.
The leader of the majority of the House of Representatives, Matt Moonen, condemned Libby in a statement on the floor of the house.
“She has irreparably broken the confidence that has been put in it as an elected official who serves in this House of Representatives,” said Moonen. “This institution and all of Maine deserve better.”
The minority leader of the House of Representatives, Billy Bob Faulingham, spoke against censorship, noting that the Code of Ethics of the State Legislature does not mention the online publications that members do.
During Tuesday’s vote, Libby arrived at the camera floor with a seven -page prepared speech about the importance of protecting the sports of girls and women from trans inclusion. However, throughout the night, his microphone was constantly turned off when he tried to pronounce that speech.
“I was completely incapable, from my first prayer, to give a word, before the other side closed me,” Libby said, adding that I had never seen anything like that during his mandate in the Maine Legislature.
Libby then published a video of her giving Facebook speech after the audience.
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Libby says that while he does not plan to apologize, he has another course of action that plans to take to recover his vote and speech privileges, but did not reveal any detail of that plan.
The Republican constituents of Maine and Libby will now lose a vote and a voice for other issues in the state legislative process in the middle of an occupied month.
Libby recently proposed a bill to expand access to mental health resources for Maine residents, who now cannot help advance. In the coming weeks, the House of Representatives will vote on the next Biannual Budget, and Libby will not vote on that either.
“It seems that I will not be able to talk about that or vote on that,” he said.
The Revelation of Libby of the Trans athlete ignited the national conversation and the coverage of the State’s policy on trans inclusion after Maine announced that he would not comply with the recent executive order of “No Men in Women’s Sports” of President Donald Trump.
Trump then promised to cut funds to the State for refusing to follow his order during a governors meeting at the White House last Thursday.
On Friday, Mills’s office responded with a statement that threatened legal actions against the Trump administration if it retained federal state funds. Then, Trump and Mills fought verbally on a widely publicized argument in the White House during a bipartisan meeting of governors.
Only a few hours after that interaction, the United States Department of Education announced that it will be investigating the State to allow Trans athletes to compete in girls and possible violations of title IX.
Since then, police protection has been assigned to the high school attended by the trans athlete that Libby identified in its Facebook publication, amid security concerns.
A recent one New York Times/Ipsos Survey He discovered that the vast majority of Americans, including most Democrats, do not believe that transgender athletes are allowed to compete in women’s sports.
Of the 2,128 people who participated, 79% said that biological men who identify as women should not be allowed to participate in women’s sports. Of the 1,025 people who identified themselves as Democrats or inclined Democrats, 67% said that transgender athletes should not be able to compete with women.
For Libby, it has its own hypothesis about why Democratic legislators in their state, and many throughout the country, are fighting so hard to protect trans inclusion in girls’ sports, despite most Americans, and Even most of the Democrats, who oppose him.
“I think that the posture of Maine’s Democrats is that they have not gone hard enough and need to dig,” Libby said.
But he hopes that the Democrats fighting for their current position, and censor it on Tuesday night.
“I think this was a tremendous false step by the Democrats, and they are completely committing this problem, and they do not understand how vigorously Maine’s people do not agree with them in this policy, and at some point they will regret this Tonight’s action, “she said.
Libby added that he believes that his republican colleagues support her while fighting censorship.
