https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/demonstrators-arrested-after-sit>This week, Idaho's governor signed into law what many are calling the most extreme anti-trans law in the United States—a bathroom ban that carries up to a year in jail for a first offense and up to five years for a second. The law criminalizes any transgender person who "knowingly and willfully" enters a bathroom, locker room, or changing room that does not align with their sex assigned at birth—penalties harsher than Idaho's own punishments for indecent exposure or driving under the influence. Incarceration under the law could also mean the removal of hormone therapy for transgender people held in jail or prison. Public outcry against the law has been swift, with human rights organizations decrying it. Now, the day after signing the law on Trans Day of Visibility, demonstrators staged their own response: a sit-in at Idaho Republican Gov. Brad Little's office, demanding to speak with him. When the governor refused to meet with them and they refused to leave, nine were arrested.>For more than three hours, over 40 demonstrators—primarily faith leaders and prominent LGBTQ+ local advocates—sat in the entry to Gov. Brad Little's office demanding a meeting. The group was led by the Rev. Sara LaWall, minister of the Boise Unitarian Universalist Fellowship and the parent of a transgender daughter, and Nikson Mathews, a transgender activist who served as a substitute state senator last year. Before entering, LaWall read a prayer: "We pray for protection, for dignity, for life. Guard them from harm, from fear, from laws that would erase them." Protesters sang for hours, held trans pride flags, and wrote notes to the governor. Little refused the meeting. A staffer told them the office closed at 5 p.m.
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What a coward, wont even look people in the eye as he harms them
