Who would have thought that we’d be depending on the Deep South to stand up for sanity and science? This being 2023, that’s exactly where we are, though.
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday signed a law prohibiting transgender people at public schools from using the restroom that matches their gender identity, the first of several states expected to enact such bans this year amid a flood of bills nationwide targeting the trans community.
Or, to translate it from Woke-ese to rational English: men will have to use men’s toilets, women use women’s toilets. Yes, we’re actually at the point that we have to make laws about this.
The bill signed by the Republican governor makes Arkansas the fourth state to place such restrictions at public schools, and it comes as bills in Idaho and Iowa also await their governor’s signature. And it might be followed by an even stricter Arkansas bill criminalizing transgender adults using public restrooms that match their gender identity.
Arkansas’ law, which won’t take effect until later this summer, applies to multi-person restrooms and locker rooms at public schools and charter schools serving prekindergarten through 12th grade. The majority-Republican Legislature gave final approval to the bill last week.
The growing backlash against Queer Theory indoctrination at least indications that there’s some hope for us, yet.
“The Governor has said she will sign laws that focus on protecting and educating our kids, not indoctrinating them and believes our schools are no place for the radical left’s woke agenda,” Alexa Henning, Sanders’ spokesperson, said in a statement. “Arkansas isn’t going to rewrite the rules of biology just to please a handful of far-left advocates.”
Similar laws have been enacted in Alabama, Oklahoma and Tennessee, although lawsuits have been filed challenging the Oklahoma and Tennessee restrictions.
Of course, the screeching loons and rainbow groomers are having conniptions.
“They’re singling out transgender people for no other reason than dislike, disapproval and misunderstanding of who transgender youth are,” said Paul Castillo, senior counsel and students’ rights strategist for Lambda Legal.
On the contrary, they’re protecting the rights of women and girls not to have to put up with males in their most private spaces. And, given the spate of rapes, assauts and other incidents perpetrated by “transgender” students in US schools, they clearly understand very well who “transgender youth” are. This is the same reason that British schoolgirls have staged mass protests against “gender neutral” toilets.
Another bill pending in Arkansas goes even further than the North Carolina law by imposing criminal penalties. That proposal would allow someone to be charged with misdemeanor sexual indecency with a child if they use a public restroom or changing room of the opposite sex when a minor is present.
Good.
“It’s a flagrant message from them that they refuse to respect (transgender people’s) rights and humanity, to respect Arkansans’ rights and humanity,” said Holly Dickson, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas.
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And that’s a flagrant message that rainbow groomers are determined to let males get access to women and little girls.
Which begs the question of what their real agenda is.
