Arkansas’s governor signs anti-trans bathroom bill

Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders
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On Tuesday, Arkansas passed a new law banning transgender students at public schools from using bathrooms that match their gender identity. Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed the law, making Arkansas the fourth state in the U.S. to pass this type of anti-trans legislation.

As the AP reports, the law prohibits trans people from using multi-person restrooms and locker rooms in the state’s public and charter schools that do not match the sex they were assigned at birth. Superintendents, principals, and teachers who violate the law by allowing trans students to use facilities that match their gender identity face fines of at least $1,000. The law also allows parents to file private lawsuits against schools to enforce the measure.

The law, which will go into effect this summer, requires schools to provide “reasonable accommodations” to trans students, including single-person restrooms. But opponents of the law say it does not provide the funding schools need in order to provide those accommodations.

Moreover, that is similar to the compromise that Gavin Grimm’s school district offered him – Gloucester County Schools told him to use a bucket in a janitor’s closet – and that district eventually settled with him for $1.3 million in attorneys’ fees after he filed a discrimination lawsuit.

“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,” a 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.”

In her first few months in office, the newly elected governor has already signed multiple…

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