Political nepo baby Sarah Huckabee Sanders continues to show that terrorizing LGBTQ+ people is her foremost mission as governor of the fourth poorest state in the nation, even as it recovers from a devastating string of tornados.
This week, Arkansas lawmakers approved a bill that would require parental approval for teachers to address their minor students with pronouns that aren’t listed on their birth certificate. The odious legislation, which includes colleges and universities, would also prohibit schools from requiring teachers to respect a student’s pronouns.
The law passed the Republican-dominated state senate by a 19-5 margin. It will now head to Sanders’ desk for her signature where she will most certainly sign it in quick order.
Lizz Garbett, the mother of a 16-year-old transgender student in Little Rock, told news station KATV that her son’s teachers have always respected his pronouns.
“It sends a message of ‘You are safe here at school, we love you, now let’s call you whatever you want to be called and get about the business of learning, which is why we’re here,” she said.
Disgustingly, the bill’s Senate sponsor, Mark Johnson (R), says the act is about protecting teachers. In truth, it’s about targeting transgender kids.
Sanders didn’t waste any time restricting the rights of LGBTQ+ Arkansans when she arrived in the governor’s mansion in January. She immediately signed a bill prohibiting state agencies from using the gender-neutral term “Latinx,” because that’s clearly one of the biggest problems in Arkansas. The state is battling a myriad of actual crises, including cleanup from a recent spat of tornados that killed at least five people.
But Sanders is wasting her time with culture war garbage. Last month, she signed a law that dictates which bathrooms which bathrooms LGBTQ+ kids can use at school.
That’s right: her head is in the toilet.
In addition, Sanders signed her own “Don’t Say Gay” law, which restricts teachers from talking about sexual orientation or gender identity in the classroom. She’s a second-rate Ron DeSantis. Congratulations, Sarah!
The Huckabee family has a long and undistinguished tradition of demonizing queer people. Her father, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, once said gay people are the biggest threat facing the U.S. (that quote is from 2019, by the way).
Daddy Huckabee once thought his gay bashing would carry him to the White House, entering the presidential race in both 2008 and 2016. It didn’t, however, and now, he hosts a Saturday night radio show on something called the Trinity Broadcasting Network.
May his daughter find a similar sad fate.
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Mister P
These Christofascists have to be stopped.
abfab
A tub o’ lard.
Brian
If the law extends into college, then it has nothing to do with children. Pretty much all college students are 18+ adults, and some students are 25 or even older.
Christians are just bigots. They’ll come up with a million excuses for themselves, but everything they say is lies. The sole rationale here is bigotry.
Kangol2
She/her/huckabeast has no clue how to actually help the people of Arkansas but she/her/huckabeast sure does know how to push hateful stunts like this!
Jeremiah
“ This week, Arkansas lawmakers approved a bill that would require parental approval for teachers to address their minor students with pronouns that aren’t listed on their birth certificate. ”
Huh? When did birth certificates list pronouns? Mine only lists the name my parents chose. There is no he/him printed anywhere on it.
abfab
Birth Certificates? Now they inject the babies with micro-chips!
Mr. Stadnick
Nasty cow hates others and wants you to hate like her too.
Just.my.opinion
She is an embarrassment to the entire country. Let’s hope and pray she is a one term governor and then disappears from the public eye.
SFMike
Women in politics have certainly not been the supportive friends of LGBT+ and even other women in the Christofascist civil war that the radical right is currently waging in the USA.
Den
That is a rather misogynistic statement given the number of progressive and even centrist women (and a few right wing women) who are very much supporters of LGBT people.
I suppose you also think that “both parties are the same” and similar bullshit.
It is REPUBLICAN women who are enemies of our community and no others.
It is REPUBLICAN women who embrace the subjugation of women (other them themselves of course).
It is REPUBLICANS who would be happy to see us all dead or at least back in the closet.
It is in no way simply “women in politics”.
abfab
Thank you Den!
I’ll have Barbara Mikulski slap this man silly. Some Gay men say the dumbest things. There are many other women but I don’t want to form a CONVINCING ARGUMENT. I don’t have to.
barryaksarben
she is no real woman she has never had a big o obviously. she is still a mean little girl
James
SICK RACIST BITCH.
abfab
Hate to say this but I will.
Sarah would make the best ARKANSAS DRAG QUEEN AMBASSADOR without changing a thing she wears or applys to her face.
kevininbuffalo
Sarah proves the truth of the saying that “politics is show business for ugly people.”
abfab
Save for Barack Obama.
Jimmynj
This Miss Piggy wannabe demonstrates on a daily basis what a disgusting thing it is.
OhHellNo
Do she and her husband know each other is gay?