Maine lawmaker Laurel Libby reflects on trans athlete post that thrust her into potential Supreme Court battle

Maine state Rep. Laurel Libby spoke to Fox News Digital about her appeal to the Supreme Court, and the social media post that identified a trans athlete.

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. 

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"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