20-year-old targeted by MAGA for political beliefs and trans identity

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20-year-old targeted by MAGA for political beliefs and trans identity

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/20-year-old-targeted-by-maga-for-political-beliefs-and-trans-identity/ 🔗

Greg Owen (8 Oct 2025)

A student activist at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge says her arrest at a campus public hearing was a targeted attack based on her political views, and alleges police became menacing when they learned she's transgender.

Gabriela Juárez, 20, was swarmed by campus police after she exceeded her allotted speaking time of three minutes at a campus presidential search forum last week.

Six other students were charged with misdemeanors and released from the campus police station after they blocked the police car taking Juárez away.

Juárez was charged with resisting arrest and "interference with educational process," which is a felony. She was taken to East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

All of the students involved are members of the LSU chapter of Students for a Democratic Society. The group claims Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) is secretly steering the process to hire the university's next president to align with the governor's far-right, Trump-inspired political agenda, while disenfranchising campus leaders, faculty and students.

Several students at the forum wore T-shirts with the slogan "No MAGA President."

LSU cops initially referred to Juárez as "she" or "her," the activist said in an interview, but began treating her differently when she shared her legal name. Then they turned hostile and referred to her as "he" and "him," she said.