Arkansas Bill Targets Hairdressers For Giving Gender-Affirming Haircuts - The Logical Leftist

[TexasTowelie]

H.B. 1668, the 'Vulnerable Youth Protection Act' weaponizes civil enforcement by permitting lawsuits against any person who supports trans young people by providing or helping to receive gender-affirming care or by affirming young people in their transition,” according to the ACLU of Arkansas.

If enacted, H.B. 1668 could lead to frivolous lawsuits against “hairdressers who cut a trans teen’s hair, teachers who use a student’s chosen name, and nonprofits that offer support.” Such lawsuits, the organization says, would be unlikely to hold up in court, as the First Amendment guarantees the right to free speech and free expression.

[RussellCattle]

1. Oh, this is going to turn out well. Every high school is populated by long-haired boys and girls with buzz cuts.

[Deuxcents]

3. What a great idea! Someone on Tic Tok should start trending for everyone to be trans for a day..or two

[SheltieLover]

2. Weirdos!

[Mopar151]

4. Get a haircut, and get a real job!

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[Buddyzbuddy]

5. As stupid and low as these legislators are,

I have to remind myself, there is a majority of people in their district that voted to send their best and brightest to represent them.
Between listening to their Bible thumping preachers and the Felon trying to crush the Dept. of Education some of those states are going to be one giant banjo playing deliverance movie. I kind of feel sorry for them.

[LiberalArkie]

6. We have the best in Arkanstan. Trump is just trying to get the U.S. educational standards to be the same as Arkansas and

Louisiana and Mississippi.

[RazorbackExpat]

7. Winthrop Rockefeller worked to bring education levels up

in the late 60s. It was like something suddenly changed between 1967 and 1968, when we started to get brand new textbooks to replace textbooks that had been used for a decade or more. However, the Arkansas History textbook that we were using in 1970 was printed in 1955, so it didn't even cover the LR Central High crisis. I think it was finally updated in 1971 when Dale Bumpers became governor.

[LiberalArkie]

8. Oh, Yea... Win was a great governor. I do not remember anything in the history books about The Trail of Tears

Or even the Japanese prisons in Arkanstan.

Win did a lot. He Started a lot. The nations best FOIA, until Col (Correction Governor) Sanders came along,

[RazorbackExpat]

9. I don't remember if Trail of Tears was mentioned in my history book

but there were Trail of Tears signs along a certain road in my hometown, and the nearby Pea Ridge NMP also had a video program about the Trail of Tears. One section of the ToT followed most of what became US 62 in northern Arkansas. In Rogers or Garfield, it branched off to the Old Wire Road down to Fayetteville, where it joined up with US 62 again and continued into Oklahoma.

[RazorbackExpat]

10. I still have a WR66 pin somewhere

The old ladies down the street from me, kind of like the Baldwin sisters from The Waltons, gave it to me. I also got a Winthrop Rockefeller/Footsie Britt medal, perhaps from the Republican Women's Club at the Benton County Fair in 1966. Back when the Republicans were actually trying to make the state progressive. That's now lon g ago and far away

[LiberalArkie]

11. My dad campaigned with Win and flew on the Falcon Jet once.. And worked as Food Stamp Director until a Democrat came

That is why I argue about Republicans being evil. Yes but mainly the conservatives of any party. The Republicans, even Win wanted to get more money into Arkansas and maybe benefit some, but not like the ones today.

I was raised in El Dorado and grew up with the Murphys, Nolans, Aldersons. Anthonys. And the parents were different people than the young wealthy today.

[RazorbackExpat]

12. I remember my Grandmother taking me to a restaurant back in 1967 or so

I was fascinated with the sugar packets that had the phrase "Talk Arkansas Up". I had no idea what it meant at the time, but apparently it was part of Win's campaign to move the state past its hillbilly image. But that didn't stop the Today Show from focusing on the hillbilly image in its Bicentennial salute to the state in 1976. My mom was quite upset about that