The representative of the Republican Party of the State of Maine, Laurel Libby, applauded the comments of President Donald Trump about keeping biological men out of girls and women’s sports on Tuesday night in his speech to a joint session of the Congress.
Libby was censored in the House of Representatives of Maine in a publication on social networks that indicated that a transgender athlete had won a girls’ competition. Libby had also expressed disagreement with the way in which the dispute of Maine Janet Mills governor with the president fell in February.
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President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
The two collided with the State’s decision not to alter their gender participation policy to comply with the president’s executive order to keep biological men out of girls and women’s sports. Trump threatened to obtain federal funds for Maine schools if the State did not comply.
On Tuesday night, Trump received strong cheers from his colleagues when he mentioned the executive order. He called the story of Payton McNabb about being seriously injured when a transgender athlete shot a ball on his face during a high school volleyball competition. He could not finish his career at high school on the court.
“Schools will kick the men of the girls team, or lose all federal funds,” Trump said.
Payton McNabb, on the left, applaud as the second lady Usha Vance observes during the speech of President Donald Trump to a joint session of the Congress in the Capitol in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Libby wrote in X that Mills must be “absolutely in panic.”
“His failures have made Maine become the fight in the fight to protect the sports of girls. President Trump is sending a clear message to her and other leaders throughout the country: the voices of our girls will be heard and their rights will be respected.”
Trump’s comments produced a day after the Senate Democrats blocked the protection of women and girls in the sporting act by advancing in the Senate. Republicans needed 60 votes to overcome the filibuster, but only received 51.
No Senate Democrat voted in favor of the bill backed by Senator Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala.
