Maine Democrats are learning the hard way what happens when you try to silence the truth.
After Governor Janet Mills’ ill-advised showdown with President Trump at the White House over her blatant violations of Title IX, the consequences came swiftly. Within seven hours of threatening to take Trump to court over his plan to withhold federal funding, the Department of Education and the Department of Agriculture launched formal investigations into Maine’s noncompliance—jeopardizing $280 million in federal funding.
And just when Mills thought things couldn’t get worse, Attorney General Pam Bondi entered the fray, sending an unmistakable warning: either Maine follows federal law, or the hammer comes down.
Pam Bondi vows to bring the hammer of justice to Maine.
Here’s the full letter she wrote to @GovJanetMills: pic.twitter.com/e79oa4AXKU
— The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) February 25, 2025
But instead of stepping back from the cliff, Maine Democrats have doubled down—this time by attacking Republican State Representative Laurel Libby for daring to speak the truth about biological males competing in girls’ sports.
Libby has been one of the leading voices in Maine opposing the outrageous policy that allows biological males to compete against female athletes. The issue exploded this week when a biological male, Katie Spencer, dominated the Maine high school girls’ state pole vault championship—just one year after competing as a male and placing fifth.
The Maine Democrat Majority has just moved to censure me, for speaking out against their failure to protect Maine girls and keep biological males out of girls’ sports.
Let me be clear: I will not be silenced and I will not allow the voices of Maine girls to be silenced. pic.twitter.com/Zdy2usGuo6
— Rep. Laurel Libby (@laurel_libby) February 26, 2025
Libby simply shared what everyone already knew—that a male athlete had just walked away with a championship title in a girls’ division. The story had been widely reported by Newsweek, The Portland Press Herald, and other outlets. But because she pointed out the obvious, House Democrats pounced, invoking an obscure parliamentary rule to censure her and silence her speech on the House floor.
Her crime? Quoting open-source news.
.@GovJanetMills‘s campaign to cancel both girls’ sports *and* anyone who speaks out against her radical agenda continues…
— Rep. Laurel Libby (@laurel_libby) February 26, 2025
Speaker Ryan Fecteau, desperate to protect the governor and his party from the fallout of their disastrous policies, used a technicality to strip Libby of her right to speak or vote until she apologized for simply stating facts.
The irony, of course, is that had Libby been praising Spencer’s victory, there would have been no censure, no outrage, no gag order. But because she questioned the fairness of the competition, she had to be punished.
If Democrats thought they could bury Libby’s message, they miscalculated—badly. Refusing to be silenced, Libby took her speech to the Capitol hallways, delivering it outside the chamber instead.
My full thoughts on @GovJanetMills and the Maine Democrat Majority’s attempt to cancel me and silence the voices of Maine girls: pic.twitter.com/GSQ1bBCbJz
— Rep. Laurel Libby (@laurel_libby) February 26, 2025
And in a moment of poetic justice, her message has now been viewed over 65,000 times on X—a far larger audience than she ever would have had inside the State House.
This isn’t just about one legislative fight. It’s a microcosm of the left’s broader authoritarian instinct—when faced with dissent, censor it. When someone challenges the narrative, punish them. When facts contradict the ideology, bury the facts.
