Edge Bostonby Laura Kiritsy
Bay Windows
Thursday May 31, 2007
Frank confessed to stifling the urge to also ask, "Are there any members who wish to change their gender?"
"That had been a big issue," Frank explained of the explicit inclusion of gender identity in the hate crimes bill. "But I didn't say that." He later went down to the rostrum, where he informed some of his colleagues, "I want you to be grateful to me for what I didn't say." They responded, said Frank, with relief. "Some of the members," he added, "were very antsy about the transgender [provision]." The bill passed with a vote of 237-180.
