First Openly 'Transgender' Lawmaker in US History Found Guilty of Child Abuse

Charles Richards : Nov 12, 2025
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Barry 'Stacie-Marie' Laughton, a former Democrat state representative in New Hampshire, acknowledged involvement in the creation of child sexual abuse material.

[LifeSiteNews.com] The LGBT community has egg on its face after the first openly "transgender" lawmaker elected in US history pleaded guilty to child abuse charges in a Boston courtroom last week. (Screengrab image: via Nashua Police Dept)

Barry "Stacie-Marie" Laughton, a former Democrat state representative in New Hampshire, admitted to involvement in the creation of child sexual abuse material. He was previously indicted on three counts of child exploitation in the fall of 2023.

Laughton, 41, served two years in the New Hampshire legislature from 2020 until 2022, though was first elected in 2012. He resigned at the time due to involvement in a credit card fraud operation. He was also charged with making a bomb threat in 2015.

According to WMUR, Laughton's former "partner" Lindsay Groves took explicit photos of children between ages three and five at the daycare she worked at in Massachusetts in 2022. She then sent them to Laughton, who via text message expressed a desire to abuse them.

Laughton and Groves will receive sentencing in February. Hailed as a trailblazer at the time of his election, Laughton now faces up to 30 years in prison, a possible $250,000 fine, and a lifetime of supervised release, per KATU-ABC 2.

Laughton was widely praised by the LGBT community for being the first out "transgender" politician elected to public office in the United States. From 2020 to 2022, he served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives but resigned in 2022 after being arrested for stalking.

Fox News has reported that the first "trans" lawmaker in the US was Althea Garrison, who was elected as a state representative in Massachusetts in 1992. Garrison was "technically the first transgender elected lawmaker, though not openly. She did not come out until shortly after the 1992 election," Fox clarified... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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