[6] Additionally, Myrdal is the former director of the North Dakota chapter of Concerned Women for America, a conservative activist group which opposes LGBTQ rights.
[8] Also in January 2017, Myrdal re-shared an article on her personal Facebook page that criticized LGBT opposition to then-president-elect Donald Trump.
Myrdal said the bill was about providing options to pregnant women, but the head of the state's sole abortion clinic said the claim was not backed by science.
In 2021, Myrdal introduced legislation which sought to defund North Dakota State University for undertaking a longtime research project on youth sex education.
[13] Myrdal supported the so-called anti-trans Senate Bill 2231[14] which would prohibit government entities from mandating employees to call people by their preferred pronouns and would also require teachers to get approval from both parents and administrators before using that student's pronouns if they're different from the student's sex at birth; Myrdal said of it, ”[Teachers] came to me in the interim, and said, ‘We are worried that we’re going to get fired because we have to violate our first constitutional rights of freedom of religion and freedom of speech by naming a child something that they're not.’ When they feel like that's helping them and their mental dysphoria toward death's door.