They were arrested for protesting Idaho's anti-trans legislation

We were arrested during a sit-in in the governor's office back in April. We were asking to meet with the governor to talk about the anti-trans bills, one that he had just signed the day before on Trans Day of Visibility, and a social transition ban that was on his desk, and we really wanted him to veto that, and he hadn't heard from the trans community, he hadn't been talking to those constituents, and we really wanted to have him hear those stories and the direct impact and the harm of both of those bills, and he refused to meet with us, so we stayed in his office until they closed and refused to leave. And our cases, the two of us, our cases are going to trial in the coming weeks. I'm a trans man, I'm originally here from Idaho, and I moved back in the last couple years. My daughter has transitioned, and I went to the governor's office and I'm here today because I'm begging for the protection of our children. Our children are not safe when they have to use the bathroom that does not match their identity. I'm also the parent of a trans daughter who was threatened when she was in high school and went on behalf of the whole trans community and all of our trans beloveds. It's not just our kids, and our kids who are also refusing to eat and drink during school time because they don't want to be singled out, they don't want to use the bathroom. In fact, one of our beloved trans youth died by suicide earlier this year, her name was May, and she was a plaintiff in the lawsuit against the school district for the school bathroom ban, and that lawsuit had to be dropped because she was the last remaining plaintiff. I mean these laws, I don't think our legislators understand how harmful they are, and the impact that they're making on people, and then the secondary impact of then giving permission for the hate and the divisiveness to grow and to continue outside of the laws with everyday people. And I'm also a minister and a person of faith, and equality and belonging and inclusion and love are foundational values of my faith, and I do this as an act of faith.