Summary

Marcy Rheintgen, a 20-year-old transgender college student, was arrested at the Florida State Capitol after intentionally entering a women’s restroom in protest of the state’s transgender bathroom law.

Civil rights lawyers say it is the first known arrest under such laws in any U.S. state.

Rheintgen faces a misdemeanor trespassing charge and could face up to 60 days in jail.

Florida is one of only two states to criminalize such acts.

  • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Shes publicly trans in Florida.

    She will be an obituary and at best a martyr.

    Some of you people really still can’t understand the south is just this side of the taliban.