Since being sworn in as Governor of Arkansas in January, political nepo baby Sarah Huckabee Sanders has made attacking LGBTQ+ people one of her top priorities as chief executive of the fourth poorest state in the nation.
One of her very first acts as governor was to ban state agencies from using the gender-neutral term “Latinx.” She followed that up by signing a “Don’t Say Gay” law prohibiting teachers from talking about gender identity and sexual orientation in the classroom. And she approved legislation that makes it easier to sue doctors for providing gender-affirming care to minors.
Now, she just signed a bill into law that polices what bathrooms queer kids can use at school.
Yesterday, Sanders signed a law that bans trans students, teachers, and other officials at both public and charter schools that serve pre-K through 12th grade from using the bathroom that matches their gender identity.
Superintendents, principals, and teachers who violate the bathroom rule could face fines upwards of $1,000 from a disciplinary panel, and parents are allowed to file private lawsuits against them.
The new law will take effect this summer.
In a statement, a spokesperson for Sanders said, “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. Arkansas isn’t going to rewrite the rules of biology just to please a handful of far-left advocates.”
An even stricter bill is currently being drafted by Arkansas Republicans that aims to criminalize trans adults from using any public restrooms that match their gender identity.
Arkansas is now the fourth state to install bathroom restrictions at public schools, following Alabama, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. According to the Human Rights Campaign, more than two dozen bathroom bills have been filed in 17 states.
The recent barrage of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation specifically targeting queer youth comes at the same a Gallup poll found that young people are queerer than ever.
A newly published survey conducted in 2022 of over 10,000 adults in the U.S. revealed that approximately 7.2% of them identify as LGBTQ+ across all age groups, up from 4.5% the last time the survey was conducted in 2017.
When you zero in on Gen Z (specified as young adults born between 1997 and 2004), a whopping 19.7% self-identified as LGBTQ+. We did the math and that’s 1 queer young adult for about every 5 Gen Z respondents surveyed.
Diplomat
This sounds more like a T issue not a gay one short of don’t say gay which DeSantis coined up to third grade. Sex education wasn’t taught until 7th grade but with the variance of sexual identity these days, earlier is better.
abfab
Tell us what you know about Gay issues. Inform us. Enlighten us. 7th grade? Another piece of the puzzle, dip.
dbmcvey
Um. 7th grade you’re 12 – 13. Sex education was, and should be, taught well before that. By that age a lot of people are already hitting puberty.
Do you even know what you’re talking about?
DonaldTrump
@abfab all I can say about gay issues, is that many gays have issues. Especially the ones thinking it’s necessary to teach kids how to change genders. They should be learning math and (real) science like the Asians. We need to ditch the woke educational system before we fall behind the rest of the developed world. Or else future generations of Americans will be babbling in Chinese and eating fried rice for dinner every night.
Kangol2
Queerty, are you going to monitor overtly racist claptrap like this anti-Asian garbage this faux “Donald Trump” is posting? I mean, come on!
Cam
Awww, the right wing troll accounts still trying to push that wedge issue.
Sweetie, …..
1. You’re using an old screename so you’re obvious.
2. Everybody knows that you’re only attacking Trans people now because you think if you can peel them away you can go after the rest of the Queer community next
3. If you’re the best troll the Republicans are sending us, that’s just sad.
FreddieW
That poor woman simply isn’t photogenic at all.
scotty
she has got the perfect face for radio.
RIGay
I was thinking the last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.
Beanie16
There is a family in one of those states named the Whitakers all inbred children of a brother and sister, one barks like a dog & pees in the yard then there’s Timmy who can’t speak at all that’s the two who prove Sarah isn’t Shrek in Drag, I mean why would she write a bill banning her from using whatever restroom of whatever sex,I just had the mental picture of someone mounting that horse I threw up a little. Huckabee is definitely and inbred freak better give her a mental evaluation
Diplomat
Now we’re getting somewhere… good for these traumatized girls coming forward.
Fairborn transgender woman stands trial for Xenia YMCA locker room incidents
The Xenia YMCA, located at 336 S. Progress Dr. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF
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CRIME & LAW
By London Bishop
March 21, 2023
Rachel Glines is charged with three counts of indecent exposure; judge will rule in April after final briefs are filed.
Fairborn transgender woman stands trial for Xenia YMCA locker room incidents
The Xenia YMCA, located at 336 S. Progress Dr. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF
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CRIME & LAW
By London Bishop
March 21, 2023
Rachel Glines is charged with three counts of indecent exposure; judge will rule inn April after final briefs are filed
Visitors packed Xenia Municipal Court on Tuesday morning for the trial of a local transgender woman facing public indecency charges over incidents at the Xenia YMCA last year.
31-year-old Rachel Glines, of Fairborn, was charged in Xenia Municipal Court with three counts of public indecency, for incidents in September and November 2022, and a third incident between November 2021 and 2022 in which underage girls were present. The charges are all fourth-degree misdemeanors.
Witness testimony in court Tuesday morning indicated that Glines had been in a state of complete undress during all three incidents, which happened in the common area of the women’s locker
Xenia police received “several complaints of a naked man in the females’ locker room” of the YMCA branch, which is located on Progress Drive in Xenia, according to the criminal complaint.
The women who encountered Glines described being deeply disconcerted and scared, with one mother saying she told her two daughters to hide in the showers until Glines left.
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Xenia City Prosecutor Melvin Planas, prosecuting the case for the State of Ohio, noted that Glines’ actions “recklessly” caused the likelihood of indecent exposure, regardless of gender identity.
“Keep in mind that the standard here is ‘reckless,’ ” Planas said of state law on the subject, adding that state statute indicates that public indecency law applies if an individual’s genitals are “likely” to be viewed by others.
Glines’ defense told Judge David McNamee on Tuesday morning that the requirement for public indecency charges, that an offender’s genitalia had been exposed to others, was not met, as Glines’ genital area had been covered by other parts of the body.
Per testimony, all three witnesses said they did not see Glines’ genital area, either because they had removed themselves from the situation, or because the area was covered by other parts of the body.
As such, the state failed to prove sufficient cause for public indecency charges, Glines’ lawyers argued.
“Exposure is an inescapable and necessary element on its own that the state is required to prove,” said Lauren Dever, Glines’ attorney, adding that there was “not one iota of evidence” to support the state’s position.
However, Planas said, the idea that parts of one’s body being used as a covering is “ridiculous.”
Final briefs from both sides must be submitted by April 3, after which McNamee will issue a written decision, he said Tuesday.
A Motion in Limine, filed by Glines’ attorneys on March 8 and granted on March 16, asked that counsels for both the defense and state omit any references to Glines as male during court proceedings. Planas’ remarks Tuesday were peppered with objections throughout the three-hour trial as he continued to use male pronouns in reference to Glines.
Attorneys for both the prosecution and the defense declined to comment further until the judge’s decision has been issued.
Cam
Remember when you right wing trolls (You under a few other screenames) would come in here and try to change every conversation over to Iran? And then you tried to turn every conversation into an attack on Black people? Now you’re trying to do the same with Trans people.
Your trolling is so sad and weak it’s just laughable.
GlobeTrotter
Its really sad when news publishers feel they can’t take a neutral and logical approach to transgender issues. In my conversations with my female clients, without exception they all have a terrible, even irrational fear of being raped. Being caught alone in a vulnerable position by a member of the male sex triggers a fear of rape panic in women to an extent impossible for us men to comprehend.
Now I believe that every individual should be treated with dignity and respect and accorded equal treatment under law, but at the same time I also listen to women and appreciate that they live and experience a completely different reality from me as a man. The average woman is about 5 foot 2 inches, weighs about 150 to 160 pounds and has about 1/3 to 1/2 the upper body strength of the average man. She stands NO CHANCE WHATSOEVER in direct combat with the average man, as is made very clear by the thousands of domestic abuse police reports every year which sees women of all ages and sizes brutally battered to within an inch of their lives.
If we put ourselves in a woman’s position, it must be TERRIFYING to find yourself alone in a bathroom in your most vulnerable state, where you often have to disrobe in order to relieve yourself, only to see a six foot tall, 3 foot wide man swinging his shlong in a private, female-only space. The female fear of rape instinct is AUTOMATICALLY triggered in such situations, which renders her incapable of rational thought. In such moments, women simply aren’t capable of calmly reasoning that the transgender woman standing before them, despite her size (and possible male genitalia) is a harmless individual who simply needs to relieve herself. Women will automatically panic, try to cover themselves and flee. Angry articles and loud marches for transgender rights will not change millions of years of female evolution.
We need to put our heads together and find a workable solution to this issue that satisfies the needs of both sides. Giving in to one side while leaving the other out in the cold only stokes the fire of resentment and division.
FreddieW
I pretty much agree with you. But until we can put our heads together without including homophobes, I’m staying out of it. Except I’ll note that I think the gay rights establishment has visited this current backlash upon us because it’s basically all transgender all the time at Lambda Legal and HRC, judging from the mail they send me.
Cam
So by that viewpoint, if a woman has a fear of dogs, then no dogs should be allowed in the city parks, or if a woman has a fear of Black people, no Black people should be allowed in the same bathroom as them…..see where I’m going here?
But it’s cute that you came here unlder one of your other screenames to push the same old bathroom B.S. What is it about Republicans and bathrooms? Is that where THEY drag their victims to attack them? Because they seem obsessed with them.
FreddieW
Dogs are leashed in the park, and racism isn’t really comparable to transphobia. Have you not noticed how many crusaders for racial equality are enemies of LGBT rights?
Diplomat
Globe,
I certainly agree with your viewpoint. I do believe Trans need accommodations tho throwing modified men in with women is tyrannical at the very least.
Sports is now advocating for men’s teams women’s teams and then open teams, an added category. Seems added bathrooms and locker rooms for Trans would copy that scenario. But men crashing women’s safe spaces should be illegal as it is traumatizing to women, a thing Trans can’t even acknowledge. This isn’t a dem or rep issue, it’s a human rights issue. Many dems who think rationally get the picture. Get men out of women’s safe spaces. Easy math.
Cam
@FreddieW
How convenient for you that everything that is similar actually isn’t.
still_onthemark
The solution is obvious. Just put Cam in that ladies’ room and if any woman is afraid of being raped, Cam will snarl at her and call her a bigot (after all she’s JUST LIKE a racist!) and that will calm her down for sure.
Kangol2
@FreddieW, you wrote: “Have you not noticed how many crusaders for racial equality are enemies of LGBT rights?” It’s racism like yours that turns some people away from LGBTQ people. Just think about that as you carry on with your transphobic claptrap!
Cam
Huckabee is the definition of a Nepo Baby. She has never had a real job, first worked for her dad, then got the job with Trump from that, and then ran for office.
Typical Republican, never worked for anything, and wants to turn around and take from others.
still_onthemark
As Jimmy Kimmel says, “The Huckabee dynasty, where nepotism meets cholesterol.”
Kangol2
Huckabeast has yet to address the pressing social and economic problems in Arkansas, of which there are many, but she is feeding nonstop red meat to her right-wing supporters. I’ll say this once but don’t be surprised if she gets a notion that she should be President or Vice President of the US. She has all the worst qualities to qualify her as a leading GQP candidate, so just beware!
AJAnders
Of the 50 states, Arkansas ranks 49th in healthcare, 41st in education, 41st in economy and 43rd in infrastructure. Those numbers are epic in their futility. I would be embarrassed and ashamed if that were my state…but you can’t shame someone who’s never been capable of having it. So Sarah will feel nothing as usual.
You have so much bigger fish to fry. But I’m sure Sarah would still have her entire state burn to the ground if it meant taking a victory lap for discriminating against an LGBT kid.
DBMC
Considering all the many, many problems AK has, she’s choosing to focus on this? Unfortunately, it will work with her uninformed constituency.
still_onthemark
minor point: Arkansas is AR; Alaska is AK.
dbmcvey
Oops, you’re right.
Diplomat
What’s puzzling about these laws is that they aren’t covering the entire state publically, but just schools. They do cover locker rooms in schools which is very very good.
Invader7
She looks like she has had any dick in years and is pissed men are getting some and she isn’t. Secondly, Arkansas-another backwards red neck state full of anti-everything ding a lings.