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At its core, the transgender movement is based on the denial of reality. So perhaps it makes a warped kind of sense that a Maine middle school student is now being punished merely for mentioning the fact that the federal government is investigating his school district for allowing a trans-identified boy to join the girls’ cheerleading team.
In the outrageous case, which was first reported by The Maine Wire, Nokomis Valley Middle School suspended an eighth grade boy for three days after he was overhead discussing the ongoing federal Title IX case against his school district to another student in private conversation.
The Maine Wire recounts:
The incident took place on February 13, as students were approaching the gymnasium for a “Rock, Paper, Scissors” competition.
“Student A overheard someone behind them say something like ‘it’s sad that our district is being investigated because someone can decide their gender’ (this is not an eaxct quote but a paraphrase of the comment,) [sic]” said the report.
As is clear from the school’s own documentation, this comment occurred during a private conversation with another student. Apparently ‘Student A’ was so disturbed by overhearing this entirely innocuous exchange that they reported the incident to the school’s guidance counselor Emelie Morton who then escalated the situation to Assistant Principal Susan Condon.
Condon agreed that the incident—a mere comment acknowledging the fact of an ongoing public investigation—demanded action. She interrupted a school assembly to call the student to her office and explain his transgression.
“Mrs. Condon told [student’s name] that he’s allowed to think/believe anything he wants but voicing those comments is different. He cannot make disparaging/discriminatory comments about others,” states the school report.
“Even in the report’s version of what took place, the comment overheard by Student A was merely a reference to the investigation, and seemingly could not reasonably be construed as discriminatory,” notes The Maine Wire. “Nevertheless, school officials determined that the comment was a ‘major incident’ and constituted bullying, with a suspected motive of obtaining peer attention.”
The punishment handed down for this ‘major incident’ of ‘bullying’ was three days of in-school suspension. When the student inadvertently missed those days due to car trouble, he was again approached by school administrators who refused to let the incident go and demanded that he still serve the days of suspension.
“There’s a good chance he’s not coming to school for the next three days, because he’s not going to serve in school suspension for something that he didn’t do anything wrong, and that’s how we ended it,” commented the student’s guardian, who added that “The school’s very smug.”
Nokomis Valley Middle School’s insistence on punishing a student merely for stating facts highlights the deception at the heart of the transgender movement. Any refusal to play along with an obvious falsehood—that a boy can become a girl, or a man can become a woman—is met with instant fury. As George Orwell wrote in his famous dystopian novel 1984, “The Party told you to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” The trans movement likewise relies on such coercion since its dogmas fall apart under the slightest scrutiny—even that of an eighth grader.
“This ain’t BULLYING, y’all – it’s a kid havin’ a simple CONVERSATION that got twisted,” Maine conservative activist Nicholas Blanchard posted on X. “No way should our young’uns be gettin’ suspended for expressin’ an opinion on a legit district issue. This is straight-up THOUGHT POLICING in our Maine schools, and it stinks!”
“That sounds like someone being punished for exercising their First Amendment right to free speech,” Maine State Representative Laurel Libby posted in response to the story on Facebook. “I hope they seek a legal opinion!”
Representative Libby has also been a target of the transgender movement. Last year, Libby was censured by the Democrat-controlled Maine State Legislature after she posted public photos of a trans-identified high school boy winning first place in the girls’ pole vaulting competition on social media. Libby was prevented by this act of censure from speaking on the House floor and even from voting on legislation—a punishment that illegally disenfranchised her constituents.
“The Maine Democrat Majority has just moved to censure me, for speaking out against their failure to protect Maine girls and keep biological males out of girls’ sports,” the lawmaker posted to X. “Let me be clear: I will not be silenced and I will not allow the voices of Maine girls to be silenced.”
Libby filed a lawsuit against Speaker of the House Ryan Fecteau (D-Biddeford) for this illegal tactic to silence her and thereby deny her constituents representation. An emergency petition to lift the terms of the censure as this lawsuit progressed was dismissed by Rhode Island-based U.S. District Court Judge Melissa DuBose. Libby then filed an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court which sided with the legislator and temporarily restored her right to vote. The Maine Legislature officially reinstated Libby’s speaking and voting rights on the last day of the legislative session in June 2025.
“This is a victory not just for my constituents, but for the Constitution itself,” Rep. Libby exulted. “The Supreme Court has affirmed what should never have been in question — that no state legislature has the power to silence an elected official simply for speaking truthfully about issues that matter.”
Representative Libby may have won back her right to speak honestly about trans ideology but as the case at Nokomis Valley Middle School reveals, students in Maine’s public school systems still have a long way to go.
