Edge Boston 🔗 [Link: edgeboston.com/index.php/]by 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.
