Maine Rep Laurel Libby condemns Gov Janet Mills over response to DOJ trans athlete lawsuit

Maine Gov. Janet Mills released a connection justifying the state's enabling of trans athletes successful girls' sports connected Wednesday aft the U.S. Department of Justice filed a suit against the authorities implicit the issue. 

Mills' effect included a condemnation that read, "I person fought tirelessly for the rights of women and girls, for the wellness and well-being of children and families." 

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Prominent GOP authorities typical Laurel Libby has spoken retired against Mills for including notation of the condemnation successful a connection provided to Fox News Digital.

"Let maine beryllium clear, Governor Janet Mills’ assertion that she has ever stood up for the rights of women and girls successful Maine is wholly false. The Department of Justice’s suit against Maine for refusing to comply with Title IX is impervious of that, arsenic it would not beryllium if she had. Her insistence that this contented has thing to bash with biologic males successful girls' sports is not lone baseless—it’s absurd," Libby said. 

"This isn't astir states’ rights, arsenic she claims; it’s astir Governor Mills and Maine Democrats pushing far-left ideologies that disregard biologic reality. By disregarding Title IX, they’ve discriminated against and endangered women and girls, and enactment Maine students and families astatine a disadvantage. Frankly, by promoting policies that erase the identities of women and girls successful Maine, it’s hard to judge adjacent Governor Mills believes what she’s saying." 

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Libby, who was astatine Wednesday's property league wherever U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the lawsuit, has been 1 of Mills' harshest critics implicit the past 2 months arsenic the authorities has refused to comply with President Donald Trump's Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports enforcement order. After Trump signed the bid connected Feb. 5, Maine was 1 of the earliest states to amusement its intent not to comply with it. 

Libby brought attraction to the state's ongoing trans inclusion policies erstwhile she made a societal media station that identified a biologically antheral trans jock who won a girls' rod vault contention for Greely High School successful mid-February.

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Since the post, 2 national agencies person launched investigations into the state. The Department of Agriculture has frozen backing to it, and present an authoritative suit by the DOJ has been filed. Maine has filed its ain suit against the Trump medication implicit the backing frost and a national justice has ruled the backing indispensable beryllium unfrozen.

Meanwhile, Libby was censured by the Democrat bulk successful the Maine House of Representatives for her societal media station connected the premise that she identified a minor. Libby has since sued House Speaker Ryan Fecteau to person the censure overturned, arguing that the insignificant she identified had already been publicized successful different media.

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