UPDATE Jan. 25, 2024 5:45 p.m.:
The Maine House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee voted that the transgender custody bill LD 1735 “ought not to pass” Thursday.
According to footage of the committee posted online, the motion that the bill “ought not to pass” passed 12-0.
Rep. Katrina Smith, a Republican on the committee, also confirmed to The Daily Signal that the bill had died in committee.
“Today we won a victory for our children who have been fooled into thinking they are not perfect the way God made them,” Smith told The Daily Signal. “With the death of LD 1735 we have proven that when evil is brought out of the darkness and exposed in the light, it can be vanquished. The people spoke loudly and it mattered.”
“My team and I are so incredibly grateful for every single person who wrote emails and shared it with their family and…
