Father concerned at anti-trans law arrested at hearing for going 30 seconds over his speaking...

A concerned father testifying at a hearing in the Arkansas statehouse against an anti-trans bill has spoken out about being arrested after speaking for more than their allotted time.

Chris Attig, who uses the pronouns they/them, was passionately defending the rights of teenagers and minors in the state to have access to gender-affirming medical care, as their now 22-year-old son had.

“It was just shocked sitting there in jail thinking that this is what happens when you speak to people about how their proposed laws are affecting your children,” Mr Attig told LGBT+ publication them on Tuesday. “They don’t want to hear it. They put you in jail.”

Adding to the outrageous sight of Mr Attig being handcuffed and removed from the hearing last month was that those speaking in favour of the bill were allowed to speak for up 40 minutes.

Only those against the bill were held to a two-minute time limit, LGBTQNation reports, while the Alliance Defending Freedom and Family Research Council, classified as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center, spoke for much longer.