The Maine state GOP lawmaker who got officially silenced by Democrats for defending girls’ high-school sports is now fighting her own party’s attempts to clamp down on chickens, she said on Thursday.

“A fellow Mainer just alerted me to LD 1655, a bill that would regulate how many chickens you can own, the space required in and out of a coop per chicken… right down to ‘a door with a latch,’” Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn) told her Facebook followers. “Micromanaging much???” she asked.

“Extra dumbfounding, it’s a Republican bill. Democrats know better than to get between a Mainer and their chickens. You can’t make this chicken %$&@ up.”

Rep. Libby is best known these days – even nationally – for getting censured for writing a social-media post that identified a trans athlete who won a girls’ state pole vault competition in February.

Libby filed a lawsuit against House Democrat Speaker Ryan Fecteau to have it overturned, but Rhode Island U.S. District Court Judge Melissa DuBose ruled against Libby last week.

This week, she filed an emergency appeal with the First Circuit Court of Appeals.

One might think Libby already has enough on her plate that to start defending chickens – against her own party, no less – is a fight best left for another day.

But she may be saved from herself on this one because her GOP colleagues say she’s got the chickens all wrong.

In fact, argues state House Minority Leader Billy Bob Faulkingham (R-Winter Harbor), his chicken bill actually favors chickens.

“If you want to raise farm animals on your property, and butcher them yourself, that’s exactly what this amendment is doing,” Faulkingham said.

Faulkingham said he sponsored the “Right to Food” amendment to actually keep towns from restricting chickens, not choking their rights. He was outspoken in support of a successful referendum question to enshrine the right in Maine’s constitution in 2020.

Multiple animal rights groups testified against the Right to Food bill earlier this year, which, according to Faulkingham, is supposed to preserve a Mainer’s right to grow or raise their own food on their property.

Both Republican legislators posted images of themselves on Facebook holding chickens in which they appeared to be saying to one another: “Bok-bok, I’m protecting your right to raise these delicious and nutritious birds on your own property.”