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 latest social media put up declaring {that a} transgender highschool athlete received a ladies 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 informed him that night time 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 House didn’t like hearing the voices of the people. … State House Speaker Ryan Fecteau has deleted his X account less than 48 hours after the Democrat Majority’s attempt 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/Workers Photographer)
Fecteau left his Fb and Bluesky accounts energetic however has not addressed the scenario with Libby or the deactivation of his account. Lots of his posts on these platforms have been flooded with feedback from these criticizing his choice to censure Libby.
“You’re a coward. A spineless, feckless, coward who obviously hates young girls,” one person commented on Fecteau’s newest Fb put up.
“While screeching that Trump and Republicans are Nazis and want a dictatorship, you silence a Representative for voicing her constituent’s valid concerns. Highlighting the usual hypocrisy of Democrats,” one other Fb person commented.
Fecteau has served in his function 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 particular person to function speaker of the Maine Home.
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On Tuesday, Fecteau handed Libby’s censure primarily based on the premise her social media put up in regards to 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 ladies pole vault competitors after competing as a boy only one yr earlier.
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“It’s a remarkable double standard as there are public photos of this individual in many places on social media and even some posted by his school, and, so, yes, this post went viral, but this was an individual who participated in a public event, who publicly stood on a podium and accepted a championship medal that rightfully belonged to the girls standing on the second-place spot,” Libby informed Fox Information Digital.
Throughout Tuesday’s vote, Libby additionally approached the Home flooring with a ready seven-page speech on the significance of defending women and girls’s sports activities from transgender inclusion. Nevertheless, all through the night time, her microphone was constantly turned off when she was attempting to ship that speech.
“I was completely unable, from my first sentence, to get a word out, before the other side 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 might not adjust to President Donald Trump’s latest “No Men in Women’s Sports” government 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 might be investigating the state for permitting transgender athletes to compete in ladies sports activities and potential Title IX violations.
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