Supreme Court Sides With Lawmaker Censured for Defending Women’s Sports

By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, May 20, 2025. 

The [US] Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Maine lawmaker who was censured for defending women’s sports from male intrusion.

“This Supreme Court decision is a victory for girls and free speech, and a defeat for woke gender advocates who want to deny biological reality,” White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly told The Daily Signal. “It is outrageous that a state legislator was ever censured for speaking the truth – there are only two genders, and it is unfair and unsafe for biological men to compete in women’s sports.”

Maine state Rep. Laurel Libby, a Republican, [pictured above] filed a federal lawsuit against Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau for censuring her after she sounded the alarm on a biological male student beating his female competitors at the Maine State Class B Championship in pole vault for girls.

Fecteau asked her to apologize for the post, and after she refused, censured her.

Rep Censured for Posting About Transgender Athlete Sues House Speaker

When a lawmaker in Maine posted a photo of a male high school athlete winning a girls pole vault state championship, her House colleagues silenced her. Now, she’s taking legal action. 

Less than two weeks after Maine Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, posted the photo on Facebook, the Maine House of Representatives voted 75-70 to censure her for posting the photo of the minor, meaning she can no longer speak or vote in the Legislature until she apologizes.  

The post included photos of the male athlete from both a boys pole vault competition a couple of years ago and the girls pole vault championship this year. “Two years ago, John tied for 5th place in boys pole vault,” Libby said in the post. “Tonight, ‘Katie’ won 1st place in the girls Maine State Class B Championship.” ...

Legislature Censures Rep. Laurel Libby for Pointing out Male Trans Athlete who won Girls' Competition

Jackson Thompson, Fox News 

The Maine House of Representatives voted to censure Rep. Laurel Libby [pictured left] Tuesday night for a recent social media post pointing out that a transgender  high school athlete won a girls' competition. 

The Maine House's Democratic majority, led by Speaker Ryan Fecteau, passed the censure resolution Tuesday night in a 75-70 vote. Libby is now no longer allowed to speak on the house floor or vote until she issues an apology. 

Libby told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview after the vote that she does not plan to apologize for her recent post.

After the censure had been determined, Fecteau told Libby that the House members would take a break while Libby considered her apology. 

"I told him, ‘We do not need to take ease’ as I was going to continue speaking up for Maine girls," Libby said. 

Pam Bondi Fires Warning Shot At Maine Over Women’s Sports

Mary Margaret Olohan, 02/25/25,  DailyWire.com

Attorney General Pam Bondi [pictured right] warned Maine on Tuesday that it must comply with federal law protecting girls’ sports from males.

Bondi issued letters to officials in Maine, Minnesota, and California following pushback from left-wing lawmakers and state officials who have refused to comply with the president’s executive order banning men from women’s sports and spaces.

“This Department of Justice will defend women and does not tolerate state officials who ignore federal law,” Bondi said Tuesday. “We will leverage every legal option necessary to ensure state compliance with federal law and President Trump’s Executive Order protecting women’s sports.”

Her letter reminds these officials that Trump’s executive order states that allowing men and boys to compete in women’s and girls’ sports is “demeaning, unfair, and dangerous to women and girls.”