Maine Home speaker deletes X account after censuring Rep. Laurel Libby

Ryan Fecteau, the Maine Home of Representatives’ Democratic speaker, deleted his X account early Thursday morning, simply days after censuring Republican Rep. Laurel Libby. 

Libby was censured by the Democratic majority Tuesday night for a current social media put up stating {that a} transgender highschool athlete received a women competitors. The censure decision handed by a 75-70 vote and revoked Libby’s talking and voting privileges.

Fecteau stated throughout a listening to that Libby’s rights wouldn’t be restored till she apologized, however she instructed him that evening she wouldn’t be apologizing. 

Libby identified that Fecteau’s account had been deactivated in an X put up Thursday. 

“Apparently Maine’s Speaker of the Home didn’t like listening to the voices of the individuals. … State Home Speaker Ryan Fecteau has deleted his X account lower than 48 hours after the Democrat Majority’s try to cancel me,” Libby wrote with a screenshot of his deleted account web page. 

Fox Information Digital reached out to Fecteau for remark. 

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Ryan Fecteau greets voters at Biddeford Excessive College whereas campaigning for a seat in Home District 11 Nov. 4, 2014.  (Jill Brady/Employees Photographer)

Fecteau left his Fb and Bluesky accounts energetic however has not addressed the state of affairs with Libby or the deactivation of his account. A lot of his posts on these platforms have been flooded with feedback from these criticizing his resolution to censure Libby. 

“You are a coward. A spineless, feckless, coward who clearly hates younger women,” one consumer commented on Fecteau’s newest Fb put up. 

“Whereas screeching that Trump and Republicans are Nazis and need a dictatorship, you silence a Consultant for voicing her constituent’s legitimate considerations. Highlighting the standard hypocrisy of Democrats,” one other Fb consumer commented. 

Fecteau has served in his position as Maine speaker of the Home since 2020. On the time of his election as speaker in December 2020, Fecteau was the youngest energetic state speaker within the U.S. on the age of 28 and the primary brazenly homosexual individual to function speaker of the Maine Home.

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On Tuesday, Fecteau handed Libby’s censure based mostly on the premise her social media put up concerning the transgender athlete recognized a minor with a photograph and included the athlete’s identify. 

Libby’s put up figuring out the trans athlete got here final Sunday when she identified {that a} transgender observe and subject athlete had taken first place at a Maine women pole vault competitors after competing as a boy only one yr earlier.

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“It is a outstanding double customary as there are public photographs of this particular person in lots of locations on social media and even some posted by his college, and, so, sure, this put up went viral, however this was a person who participated in a public occasion, who publicly stood on a podium and accepted a championship medal that rightfully belonged to the women standing on the second-place spot,” Libby instructed Fox Information Digital.

Throughout Tuesday’s vote, Libby additionally approached the Home ground with a ready seven-page speech on the significance of defending women and girls’s sports activities from transgender inclusion. Nonetheless, all through the evening, her microphone was persistently turned off when she was making an attempt to ship that speech. 

“I used to be utterly unable, from my first sentence, to get a phrase out, earlier than the opposite facet was shutting me down,” Libby stated, including she had by no means seen something like that occur throughout her tenure within the Maine legislature. 

Libby’s revelation of the transgender athlete ignited nationwide dialog and protection of the state’s coverage on trans inclusion after Maine introduced it will not adjust to President Donald Trump’s current “No Males in Ladies’s Sports activities” govt order. 

Trump then vowed to chop funding to the state for refusing to observe his order throughout a gathering final week of governors on the White Home. 

On Friday, Mills’ workplace responded with an announcement threatening authorized motion in opposition to the Trump administration if it did withhold federal funding from the state. Then, Trump and Mills verbally sparred on the White Home throughout a bipartisan assembly of governors. 

Simply hours after that interplay, the U.S. Division of Training introduced it will be investigating the state for permitting transgender athletes to compete in women sports activities and potential Title IX violations. 

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