Des Moines, Iowa: Troopers bully & threaten to arrest queer students for simply using the bathroom

State troopers bully and threaten to arrest queer students for simply using the bathroom

All the teenagers did was use the bathroom. Yet a group of LGBT+ high school students were reduced to tears – some experiencing panic attacks – after four Iowa state troopers forcibly pushed them and forced them to leave. Teens opened the doors of the Iowa Capitol Hill building Thursday afternoon to lobby legislators on issues impacting LGBT+ youth, only for troopers to force them out within 30 minutes. In mobile phone footage seen by PinkNews, a trooper, who called himself “Seargent Underwood”, can be seen scolding trans and non-binary students before shoving them out of the statehouse. “It was ...

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https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/13/iowa-safe-schools-trans-bathroom-state-troops/