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Texas governor enters transgender bathroom access fray
With companies and sports associations returning to North Carolina after the state passed a fake “repeal” of their bathroom bill, the governor is feeling emboldened.
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Arkansas bathroom bill sponsor doesn’t think trans people would be affected
The ACLU and LGBTQ groups say that the bill would have similar impacts to North Carolina’s HB2.
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Arkansas inches closer to transgender ‘bathroom bill’
Republican state senator Linda Collins-Smith wants facilities in government buildings limited to members of only one sex if multiple people will use it at the same time.
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Arkansas rejects bill that would have allowed hospitals to discriminate
An Arkansas House panel on Thursday rejected a “religious freedom” bill that would have allowed health care workers and hospitals to refuse to treat LGBTQ patients.
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New Arkansas bathroom bill would cover government buildings
The state’s Republican governor has been steadfast that any form of a bathroom bill is unnecessary and divisive.
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Arkansas’ ‘bathroom bill’ is ripping apart Republican politics
A one-sentence bill filed last week offered little specifics, other than saying its purpose was to address “gender identity and bathroom privileges.”
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Arkansas lawmakers are writing bathroom bill despite Repub governor’s opposition
A one-sentence bill was filed by two GOP state senators stating only that it addresses “gender identity and bathroom privileges” without any specifics.
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Standing up: Arkansas Democrats are getting on board with LGBT rights
It’s a shift for a state party whose top elected officials for the most part didn’t support same-sex marriage before it was legalized by the Supreme Court.
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Arkansas gov tells schools: Disregard Obama on trans rights
Asa Hutchinson criticized the directive as “social engineering.”
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Analysis: Marriage ruling opens fight within Arkansas GOP
Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson was an unlikely foil for members of his own party who were outraged at the U.S. Supreme Court decision to strike down same-sex marriage bans nationwide. But now Hutchinson is facing pushback from conservatives who think the state should protect county clerks who don’t want to issue marriage licenses to gay couples…