1. A day after Gov. Little signed Idaho's extreme bathroom ban with 5 years in prison, demonstrators were arrested in Idaho for staging a sit-in.
This comes at the same time that a transgender woman deliberately violated Kansas ban.
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Demonstrators Arrested After Sit-In In Idaho Protesting Extreme Felony Trans Bathroom Ban
9 Idaho demonstrators were arrested after refusing to leave the Governor's office.
2. For more than three hours, over 40 demonstrators—primarily faith leaders and prominent LGBTQ+ local advocates—sat in the entry to Gov. Brad Little's office demanding a meeting.
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Protesters arrested during sit-in at Idaho Capitol to support trans community
A group of roughly 30 protesters gathered in and around the governor’s office at the Idaho Statehouse to oppose legislation including the “bathroom bill,” wi...
3. The group was led by the Rev. Sara LaWall, minister of the Boise Unitarian Universalist Fellowship and the parent of a transgender daughter, and Nikson Mathews, a transgender activist who served as a substitute state senator last year.
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4. Before entering, LaWall read a prayer: "We pray for protection, for dignity, for life. Guard them from harm, from fear, from laws that would erase them." Protesters sang for hours, held trans pride flags, and wrote notes to the governor. Little refused the meeting.
5. A staffer told them the office closed at 5 p.m. When the nine refused to leave, Idaho State Police arrested them at 5:30 p.m. on misdemeanor trespass charges and booked them into the Ada County Jail. All nine—ranging in age from 34 to 84—were released later that night.
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At least 9 arrested in protest at Gov. Little's office over trans bathroom bill
At least nine people protesting inside the statehouse office of Idaho Gov. Brad Little were arrested Wednesday and charged with misdemeanor trespassing.
6. Sit-ins against unjust laws have a long history in the United States, from the Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins of 1960 that helped desegregate the American South to the sit-ins of the disability rights movement that led to the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Disability History: The 1977 504 Sit-In
The longest sit-in in American history belongs to the disability rights movement.
7. Now, trans people and their allies are adopting the same tactics. In March 2025, Marcy Rheintgen, a transcollege student, declared "I am here to break the law" before entering a women's restroom at the Florida Capitol and was arrested. In Texas, four trans women were detained at the capitol.
8. And just this week, as EITM reported, Samantha Boucher, founder of Trans Liberty, walked into a women's restroom at the Kansas Statehouse on Trans Day of Visibility in a deliberate act of civil disobedience.
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Transgender Woman Defies Kansas's Extreme Bathroom Ban In Act Of Civil Disobedience At State Capitol
"I am very sorry that you and others have been put in this situation," Gov. Kelly said.
9. The group responsible has posted a GoFundMe page, which as of reporting has raised $27,000.
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