Laurel Libby reacts to Justice Department referral after Maine refuses to ban trans athletes from girls sports

The authorities of Maine could look consequences from the Department of Justice for its continued refusal to prohibition trans athletes from girls sports, and the lawmaker who brought consciousness to the contented successful the authorities weighed in. 

After the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) said it referred Maine’s "noncompliance" with Title IX rules to the Justice Department Friday, Maine Republican authorities Rep. Laurel Libby placed blasted connected Gov. Janet Mills and the state's Democratic lawmakers.

"Governor Mills and the Democrat bulk refusal to comply with national Title IX protections has present resulted successful Maine being officially referred to the Department of Justice. This is simply a nonstop effect of their extremist policies that enactment ideology up of fairness and information for Maine girls and the acquisition of our students," Libby told Fox News Digital.

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"Mainers judge successful communal sense, fairness and protecting the rights of women and girls successful sports and spaces. While this utmost stance does not bespeak the values of our state, it is yet Maine’s schools, students and taxpayers who volition endure the consequences of their reckless decisions and ongoing feud with biologic reality."

Libby brought nationalist attraction to her state's contented of trans inclusion successful girls sports with a societal media station revealing a transgender way and tract jock astatine Greely High School had taken archetypal spot astatine a Maine girls rod vault contention aft competing arsenic a lad conscionable 1 twelvemonth earlier.

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Libby's revelation of the trans jock ignited nationalist speech and sum of the state's argumentation connected trans inclusion aft Maine announced it would not comply with President Donald Trump's caller "No Men successful Women's Sports" enforcement order. 

Trump past vowed to chopped backing to the authorities for refusing to travel his bid during a gathering of governors astatine the White House Feb. 20. 

The adjacent day, Mills' bureau responded with a connection threatening ineligible enactment against the Trump medication if it did withhold national backing from the state. Then, Trump and Mills verbally sparred successful a wide publicized statement astatine the White House during a bipartisan gathering of governors. 

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Just hours aft that dispute, the U.S. Department of Education announced it would beryllium investigating the authorities for allowing trans athletes to vie successful girls sports and imaginable Title IX violations. 

Police extortion was aboriginal assigned to the precocious schoolhouse attended by the trans jock Libby identified successful her Facebook post. 

Libby was past censured for her Facebook station by Maine's Democratic bulk due to the fact that she posted a photograph of a minor. 

She has since filed a suit seeking to person her censure overturned. 

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