Pro-trans activists in Maine protest outside censured rep's home amid her support for Trump's sports order

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Activists protested extracurricular Maine Rep. Laurel Libby's location connected Sunday successful absorption to her beliefs astir transgender athletes successful women's and girls' sports.

Libby was past week censured by the state's House of Representatives for a caller societal media station pointing retired that a transgender precocious schoolhouse jock had won a girls' competition. 

The Maine House's Democratic majority, led by Speaker Ryan Fecteau, passed the censure solution Tuesday nighttime successful a 75-70 vote. Libby is present nary longer allowed to talk connected the location level oregon ballot until she issues an apology. 

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Maine State Rep. Laurel Libby is sounding the alarm implicit    the state's defiance of President Donald Trump's Executive Order demanding an extremity  to biologic  males competing successful  women's sports.

Maine State Rep. Laurel Libby is sounding the alarm implicit the state's defiance of President Donald Trump's Executive Order demanding an extremity to biologic males competing successful women's sports. (Getty/Maine House of Representatives)

Just 8 protesters appeared extracurricular Libby's location with signs speechmaking "Shame connected you Laurel 4 exploiting a kid 4 your governmental gain" and "protect trans youth," according to The Maine Wire.

The mini-protest came a time aft hundreds took portion successful a rally against Maine Gov. Janet Mills.

Mills recently clashed with President Donald Trump implicit his enforcement bid connected keeping transgender athletes retired of women's and girls sports. Several pistillate athletes took the microphone astatine the march to talk retired against their Democratic governor.

Ahead of the march, an online petition to callback the politician received implicit 22,000 signatures. Hundreds appeared astatine the rally.

President Donald Trump and Maine Gov. Janet Mills

President Donald Trump and Maine Gov. Janet Mills clashed astatine the White House implicit enforcement bid compliance. (Pool via AP/Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Last week, Trump told Mills astatine the White House that she indispensable travel his enforcement bid oregon "you're not going to get immoderate national funding."

"We’ll spot you successful court," she replied.

As for Libby, she told Fox News Digital past week that she would not apologize for the post. She did not instantly respond to a petition for remark regarding Sunday's protestation extracurricular her home.

"It's a singular treble modular arsenic determination are nationalist photos of this idiosyncratic successful galore places, connected societal media and adjacent immoderate posted by his school, and so, yes, this station went viral, but this was an idiosyncratic who participated successful a nationalist event, who publically stood connected a podium and accepted a title medal that rightfully belonged to the girls lasting connected the second-place spot," Libby said. 

Janet Mills

Democratic Gov. Janet Mills delivers her State of the State address, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, astatine the State House successful Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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The U.S. Department of Education announced soon aft Mills' and Trump's enactment that it volition beryllium investigating the state for allowing trans athletes to vie successful girls' sports and for imaginable Title IX violations. 

Fox News' Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.

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