The other day, I watched my six-year-old granddaughter receive two first-place awards for participating in her school’s Winter Olympics in Florida. As she stood on the center podium, her face radiated her accomplishments. I thought about the war we battle in Maine to protect girls in sports and locker rooms. I later asked my granddaughter […]
Letters
Letters to the editor of the Sun Journal.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Lawrence Small: America needs best candidate, regardless of party
For the first time in American history we have a pathological, narcissistic liar and convicted felon in the Oval Office to represent the U.S. I guess the majority of Republican voters feel the need to vote Republican, no matter what. Conversely, I think it’s not any better to vote a straight Democrat ticket no matter […]
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Edward Harwood: Rep. Libby needs ‘serious self-reflection’
The issues surrounding gender and sports are complex and even confusing. What is neither complex nor confusing is the act of putting a child’s name in the public domain in order to humiliate or disgrace them. That is malicious and vicious. I am regularly struck by the fact that those who most aggressively foreground their […]
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Lana Hall: Women’s sports should remain female-only
Maine’s female athletes train relentlessly for a fair chance to shine, but allowing biological males in women’s sports tilts the scales. Take the recent girls’ pole vault championship at Greely High School, won by a transgender athlete who competed as a boy last year. This isn’t about inclusion — it’s about fairness. Rep. Laurel Libby […]
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Arthur Wing: Males competing against females is unfair, dangerous
I wish to thank Laurel Libby, state Representative from Auburn and Minot, for her support of women and girls-only sports. The fact our great state allows males to compete against females is beyond belief. Males competing against females is not fair and more importantly, it is dangerous. Arthur Wing, Auburn
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Zoë Lidstrom and Jae Zimmermann: Trans girls in sports is a distraction
We are being pitted against one another over a hot-button issue that keeps us distracted from the power and money grab taking place under our very noses. The Trump administration has weaponized the issue of trans girls in sports to threaten to override congressional power of the purse by withholding taxpayer money already allocated via […]
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Donald Potter: Trump/Vance ambush of Zelenskyy was shameful
On Feb. 28, never in my life had I been so ashamed to call myself an American. The ambush of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by Donald Trump and J.D. Vance in the Oval Office was a despicable display of brutish disrespect of a wartime ally of the U.S. The past three years have seen the […]
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Patrick Eisenhart: I don’t support Rep. Libby
Wow. On the Feb. 28 front page in super-sized lettering, “I support Libby.” Well, I don’t. Wasn’t Rep. Laurel Libby just censured by the state Legislature for breaking federal Title IX law and Maine Child Online Privacy Protection laws by posting on her Facebook page the picture of a Maine high school student athlete she […]
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Judy Cyr: Rep. Libby deserves an apology, removal of censure
The Democrat majority took away the right of Republican Rep. Laurel Libby to vote and speak on the House floor until she’s complied with the speaker’s request for an apology because she posted a photo of a male athlete playing in a girls’ sport, that had already been posted online by the school and others. […]
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Holly Lasagna: Article on Libby was biased, incendiary, unfair
I am astounded, horrified and furious at the piece on Rep. Laurel Libby and the vilifying of trans women and girls in the Feb. 28 paper. Not only is it incendiary and unfair, but it is also weak, lazy journalism. Interviewing three people at a pizza place and country store is ridiculously biased. I worry […]