Arkansas governor says state won't comply with new federal rules on treatment of trans students

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Source: AP

Updated 7:25 PM EDT, May 2, 2024


LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared Thursday that the state won’t comply with a federal regulation that seeks to protect the rights of transgender students in the nation’s schools, joining other Republican-led states that are defying the new rules.

Sanders signed an executive order stating that Arkansas schools will continue to enforce restrictions on which bathrooms and pronouns transgender students can use, laws that could be invalidated by the new regulations on how to enforce Title IX. “My message to Joe Biden and the federal government is we will not comply,” Sanders said at a news conference at the state Capitol.

The regulation finalized last month seeks to clarify Title IX, a landmark 1972 sex discrimination law originally passed to address women’s rights and applied to schools and colleges receiving federal money. The regulations spell out that Title IX bars discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, too. Sanders called those changes a complete reinterpretation of the law.

Sanders’ order follows similar moves by several other states, including Texas and Oklahoma, that have told schools to not comply with the new regulation. Lawsuits also have been filed in federal courts in Texas, Alabama, Louisiana and Kentucky challenging the rule. The multiple challenges give the states a better chance that one of them will put the rule on hold nationally.

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[Old Crank]

1. Take their federal education funds.

They can go without. Send the money to states that care about children's education.

Why are the GOP so full of hateful people?

[Mysterian]

5. Take all their federal funds

Like most red states, Arkansas is a gubmint welfare state.

[Old Crank]

7. Almost as big a hog

As Kentucky.

[Barry Markson]

2. President Biden needs to send Federal Marshals

To escort trans students to their preferred bathrooms, locker rooms, and sporting competitions.

It would be his Ruby Bridges moment for the world to see.


it's just a shame Norman Rockwell isn't alive to memorialize the event.

[Polybius]

8. He didn't do it in Texas with the state openly ignoring the Supreme Court's order on iummigration

I remember the posts here saying that he would take control over the National Guard. He didn't.

[Freethinker65]

3. If there ever is another Republican President, any Governor can disregard that President's orders too?

I must have missed that lesson in elementary school civics class.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

4. Shut up, ya hateful twunt

Good govt protects citizens against the tyranny of the majority

[gohuskies]

6. Rethug governors thrive on cruelty

For a so-called christian, Suckabee is one mean a-hole. Cannot stand that monster. Along with Gov. DeathSentence and Abbot, they have no limits to their naked cruelty.

[NanaCat]

9. She's not so-called with her religion

She is a Christian. I get tired of people making this false claim, just because they don't like that she's a Christian doing awful things. Christians can be bad people, same as anyone else. Did it not occur to you how bigoted it is to lie that she has to be something--anything--other than a Christian, because only people who aren't Christian would say and do the things she does?

We who are not Christian are not responsible for the immoral members of the Christian cult. Christians are. They've been doing a bang-up job at creating awful people for 2000 years now.