FFS Friday: Dani L. O'Halloran

June 13, 2025

FFS (Female Free Speech) Friday honors women and girls who are speaking out about the harms that “gender identity” poses to women and girls as a sex class. FFS Friday posts are free and shareable.

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Today’s FFS Friday honors Dani O’Halloran, a Maine House Democrat who recently broke with the party by taking a strong stand on behalf of her state’s women and girls.

Phone: Maine House of Representatives

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In April, the Speaker of the Maine House (Ryan Fecteau), a Democrat, brought a proposed constitutional amendment to the House floor, despite the proposed amendment not being on the House’s calendar for the day, according to an article in the Maine Wire. The bill would enshrine “gender identity” in the Equality of Rights provision of the state Constitution. This is the same House Speaker who unlawfully censored House member Laurel Libby in February for taking a strong stand in support of female-only sports.

There is nothing unusual about Democrats trying to get “gender identity” enshrined in law. It’s the norm. What’s unusual about this case is that Maine House Democrat Dani O’Halloran crossed the aisle to vote no.

It passed in the House 74-69, with O’Halloran and one other Democrat voting no. It will go to the Senate and if it passes, be sent back to the House for a final vote. It would need a two-thirds majority for final enactment because it proposes a constitutional amendment. Even if it manages to pass in the legislature, it will have to go to the Maine residents for a referendum in order to become law.

The bill is very unlikely to clear all of those hurdles, and is unlikely to become law.

O’Halloran did not have to vote the way she did. She could have kept her head down and done what her party leaders, including the Speaker, have been telling her to do, knowing that even if she voted for it, it is unlikely to ultimately become law.

I have never spoken with O’Halloran, but I assume she cast this vote because it was the right thing to do for women and girls.

Representative O’Halloran, thank you. Thank you for bucking the party trend and voting to protect women and girls as a sex class in your state. Today’s FFS Friday is for you.