Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy, 11/08

[SVPete]

First Trans New Hampshire State Representative Pleads Guilty to Child Exploitation

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/11/07/first-trans-nhampshire-rep-pleads-guilty-to-child-exploitation-n4945732

The first transgender representative in New Hampshire’s history just pleaded guilty to charges of pedophilic sex abuse.

Ex-Rep. “Stacie-Marie” Laughton (D) is a man who masquerades as a woman — and has a thing for child sex exploitation. It turns out that when an individual openly displays one type of mental illness and sexual perversion, he is liable to be guilty of another. The former Democrat representative also has a lengthy criminal history dating back to before his election, raising questions about why he was free and allowed to run for and hold political office.

Laughton’s former partner, Lindsay Groves, worked at a daycare in Massachusetts, where she took sexually explicit photos of the children she was supposed to watch, between ages three and five, and sent them to Laughton. Groves already admitted to the crime and said Laughton specifically requested the nude photos and that the two texted thousands of times about them, per WMUR9 ABC.

New Hampshire voters elected Laughton three times to the New Hampshire House, but Laughton had to resign twice over legal issues. He has now pleaded guilty to the child exploitation charges and will be sentenced in February, as will Groves.

Any DU members from NH?

[SVPete]

Oregon girls who protested trans athlete at track and field medal podium score legal win in lawsuit

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/oregon-girls-who-protested-trans-athlete-at-track-and-field-medal-podium-score-legal-win-in-lawsuit/ar-AA1Q1y1y

Oregon teens Alexa Anderson and Reese Eckard scored a win in their legal battle against the state's high school sports association after they stepped down from a medal podium to protest a trans athlete in May.

Anderson and Eckard's lawsuit against the Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) alleges the league excluded them from official photos after the protest and even withheld their medals. The suit argues the girls' First Amendment rights were infringed upon by the officials.

U.S. District Court Judge Youlee Yim You denied the OSAA's motion to strike a portion of the lawsuit that highlighted what forms of political speech the league does allow, including Black Lives Matter and pro-LGBTQ pride messaging, which was a key point in the plaintiffs' argument.

Judge You is an Obama appointee. At the least, she was unwilling to gut the girls' case by barring one of its central lines of evidence.