{"id":37832,"date":"2025-05-05T19:44:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T00:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=37832"},"modified":"2025-05-05T23:49:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T04:49:42","slug":"briefly-maine-wont-let-legislator-vote-because-she-posted-facts-about-a-trans-athlete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=37832","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Maine won\u2019t let legislator vote because she posted facts about a \u2018trans\u2019 athlete"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A state legislator in Maine has been stripped of the ability to speak in the state Legislature \u2014 and her votes are not being counted on legislative issues \u2014 all because she made a truthful social media post. Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn, Maine) opposes allowing boys to compete against girls\u2019 teams in school athletics and she\u2019s become known for making an issue of it. On Feb. 17, she posted on Facebook<\/a> about a recent example that she found outrageous. She posted side-by-side photos of a boy named John who competed last year in a state track event and won fifth place against other boys two years ago \u2014 and a photo of the same boy (now called Katie) who won first place in the same event this year against girls. Whether you find this outrageous or not, Libby is clearly being honest and truthful about the objective facts of an issue of public importance. But the state Legislature censured her. Democrats decreed that she could not speak in the House and that her votes would not count on legislation \u2014 until she apologized for the outrage of telling the truth. She refused and her constituents have been unrepresented<\/a> in the state House since then. The people who promote this ideology are out of touch with reality and won\u2019t rest until they force the rest of us to join them in this delusion. But even if you agree with \u201ctrans\u201d ideology, you should be appalled at this heavy-handed attack on political speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A state legislator in Maine has been stripped of the ability to speak in the state Legislature \u2014 and her votes are not being counted on legislative issues \u2014 all because she made a truthful social media post. Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn, Maine) opposes allowing boys to compete against girls\u2019 teams in school athletics and Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-briefly","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-9Qc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37832"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37840,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37832\/revisions\/37840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}