Arkansas joined several states on Tuesday by enacting a bill into law prohibiting transgender people at public schools from using the restroom that uses their gender identity.
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed her name on the piece of legislation, which applies to multi-person restrooms and locker rooms at public schools and charter schools from kindergarten through 12th grade.
"The Governor has said she will sign laws that focus on protecting and educating our kids, not indoctrinating them and believes our schools are no place for the radical left’s woke agenda," Alexa Henning, Sanders' spokesperson, said in a statement to The Associated Press. "Arkansas isn’t going to rewrite the rules of biology just to please a handful of far-left advocates."
The law won't go into effect until 90 days after the current legislative session ends on April 7 but will be in place before the 2023-24 school year begins.
