NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!A Feb. 17 Facebook post has become a catalyst for political history in Maine. And it could soon be the topic of Supreme Court testimony. That day, state Rep. Laurel Libby used the social media site to identify an athlete who had just rocked a high school track meet. The athlete took first place in girls’ pole vault Maine State Class B Championship, propelling Greely High School to a girls’ state title. It was already big local news, as the Portland Press Herald published a recap the same day Libby made the post, which also identified the athlete by name. But Libby’s post pointed out that the athlete finished fifth in a boys’ competition, just two years earlier. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM”I had been talking with a mom, friend of mine, who has had a child in track in Maine for a long, long time,” Libby told Fox News Digital. “She told me there was a biological male who was probably going to win the girls’ state-wide pole vault championship, and sure enough, he did… I looked at the image of the second-place girls, and that’s who should have been in first place.” The post went viral and thrust Maine, Greely High School and the athlete into the bull’s-eye of the national trans athlete debate. Libby said no one from the school or the athlete’s family ever reached out to her about the post. “I never heard from them or the school,” Libby said. Fox News Digital has reached out to Greely High School for comment. The first person Libby says she heard from that took issue with her post was Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau, who she is now suing for censuring her over the post.”He found it objectionable and asked me to take it down, at the same time I asked him if he would support Maine girls, and support policy that stopped discrimination against Maine young women in sports and he declined to answer,” Libby said. MAINE GIRL INVOLVED IN TRANS ATHLETE BATTLE REVEALS HOW STATE’S POLICIES HURT HER CHILDHOOD AND SPORTS CAREER”The main criticism all along from the Democrats is that it was a picture of a minor.” Libby said families of other students at Greely High School have reached out to her as the issue has progressed. “[They] have encouraged me because they don’t agree with biological males participating in girls’ sports, and given their relationship with the school, they can’t say that publicly,” Libby said. “We’ve seen this become a big talking point in the Greely, Cumberland area.”A survey by the American Parents Coalition found that about 63% of Maine voters said school sports participation should be based on biological sex, and 66% agreed it’s “only fair to restrict women’s sports to biological women.”Greely’s District, MSAD #51, has previously provided a statement in support of its eligibility policies. “The MSAD #51 Board of Directors is guided by the Mission, Vision, and Core Values of our district. 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Maine legislator Laurel Libby shares her thoughts on a post about transgender athletes that could lead her to a possible Supreme Court legal confrontation.
