Meet Maggie Sutton, South Dakota State Senate transphobe and fluent speaker of newspeak

 

Maggie Sutton

Photo credit:  South Dakmota state legislatuire (clown makeup added)

NPR, 3/8/2021

"This is a very simple bill. It's a bill to protect women's sports," says Republican State Sen. Maggie Sutton, one of the primary sponsors of the legislation. "It's not against transgenders," Sutton says. 

"To me, it looks an awful lot like bullying," says Democratic state Sen. Reynold Nesiba, who voted against the bill. 

Janna Farley is the spokesperson for the ACLU of South Dakota. She says it is disheartening that legislators are spending their time on bills like this. "We don't need to have discrimination like this codified into law."

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