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A left-wing trans-identified city council member who was arrested for indecent exposure while protesting topless in Stevenson, Washington earlier this year has announced a run for mayor. At the same time, the official is facing a recall campaign in the wake of the arrest.Lucy Lauser, a city council member in Stevenson, Washington, is running for mayor in the Democrat primary set for August 5. Archives of Lauser's social media profile link the official to Antifa, who has talked about treating Republicans as "Nazis."In April when Lauser protested topless, police wrote in their report that the they were tipped off by someone who said "a 'female protester' was standing on the sidewalk exposing her 'chest'" in public, and that when police approached Lauser, the official claimed that displaying the "breasts as an act of protesting was not considered obscene." ...
A Stevenson city councilor protested topless for trans rights. She now faces a recall campaignLucy Lauser was arrested on the Fourth of July for her public protest against the Trump administration. Now running for mayor, she faces a more concerted opposition.Author: Blair Best KGWPublished: 6:01 PM PDT July 30, 2025Updated: 6:01 PM PDT July 30, 2025STEVENSON, Wash. — A city councilor now running for mayor in the southwest Washington community of Stevenson faces a recall campaign and potential prosecution for her topless protest of the Trump administration's attacks on transgender rights.More than a decade ago, Lucy Lauser met Stu Rasmussen, the former mayor of Silverton, Ore., and the first openly transgender mayor in the country. That was what first opened the door to local politics for Lauser. ...Lauser first decided to protest the Trump administration on March 31, Transgender Day of Visibility. She reprised her protest on the Fourth of July, which is where things escalated.Topless, Lauser stood out on the Skamania County Courthouse lawn facing State Route 14. Her breasts were only partially covered by tape, and she had tape over her mouth."When I was getting ready for the protest, I felt sick. I didn't want to do it ... it just felt like something that had to be done," Lauser said. "To say that it's obscene for me to wear a dress, it's obscene for me to have breasts at all ... a lot of people seem to think that this is either aesthetic preference or some sort of obscene sexual fetish, which are both completely wrong. For me, it's a matter of life or death." ...
Men are allowed to be in public shirtless. Police her-assment