Arkansas Passes Law That, Restricts Transgender Students' , Access to Bathrooms .<br />On March 21, Arkansas Governor <br />Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a bill banning <br />transgender students from using restrooms that <br />differ from the sex on their birth certificates.<br />On March 21, Arkansas Governor <br />Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a bill banning <br />transgender students from using restrooms that <br />differ from the sex on their birth certificates.<br />CNN reports that the new law represents <br />the latest GOP-led effort to limit <br />the rights of LGBTQ students in schools. .<br />The bill applies to restrooms, <br />locker rooms, changing rooms and <br />shower rooms in public and charter schools.<br />Failing to comply with the new law, which applies to <br />pre-K through 12th grade, can result in $1,000 fines <br />for superintendents, teachers and principals.<br />The bill also requires schools to provide <br />accommodations for those who would be <br />prohibited from using the facilities under the new law.<br />However, the law specifies that <br />those accommodations must not include , “access to a restroom or changing area that is designated for use by <br />members of the opposite sex to an individual while members of <br />the opposite sex of the individual are present or may be present.”.<br />The governor has said she will sign laws <br />that focus on protecting and educating <br />our kids, not indoctrinating them, and <br />believes our schools are no place <br />for the radical left’s woke agenda, Alexa Henning, Spokesperson for Sanders, via CNN.<br />Arkansas isn’t going to rewrite <br />the rules of biology just to please <br />a handful of far-left advocates, Alexa Henning, Spokesperson for Sanders, via CNN.<br />Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, the executive director of GLSEN, an <br />advocacy group for LGBTQ students, argues that the new law uses , “trans and nonbinary kids as political pawns.".<br />Enforcing these bills would be prohibitively expensive and time-consuming for schools and extraordinarily invasive toward transgender students, Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, the executive director of GLSEN, via CNN
