Shelley Luther, the hair salon owner who was catapulted into political stardom after...
Republican Texas Rep. candidate Shelley Luther during a town hall for the Fannin County Republican Party on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022 in Bonham.BONHAM — Shelley Luther, the hair salon owner who was catapulted into political stardom after being jailed for defying a pandemic lockdown order, put transgender kids in the crosshairs of her campaign for the Texas House over the weekend.
“I am not comfortable with the transgenders,” Luther told the audience of Republican voters. “The kids that they brought in my classroom, when they said that this kid is transgendering into a different sex, that I couldn’t have kids laugh at them … like, other kids got in trouble for having transgender kids in my class.”Hairdresser Shelley Luther was catapulted into political stardom when she was briefly jailed in 2020 for defying a pandemic lockdown order.
“When the center of focus becomes a student and not the actual lesson being taught, it is unfair to the other students,” she said. “We should focus more on learning instead of arguing about which bathroom someone should use. Bullying is never acceptable, and did not occur.”came under fire
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