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Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday signed a law banning transgender people at public schools from using bathrooms of their choice.
Arkansas becomes the first of several states expected to enact such a ban targetting the transgender community this year.
“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,” the governor’s spokesperson Alexa Henning said in a statement.
“Arkansas isn’t going to rewrite the rules of biology just to please a handful of far-Left advocates.”
Meanwhile, similar laws targeting the transgender community have also been enacted in Alabama, Oklahoma and Tennessee. However, lawsuits have been filed in Oklahoma and Tennessee against these restrictions.
