Transgender Rights and Public Bathrooms

[traci_k]

Transgender Rights and Public Bathrooms

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-heroux/transgendered-rights--pub_b_8282114.html 🔗

Huffington Post/Blog

Paul Heroux
State Representative, Massachusetts
Posted: 10/12/2015 5:05 pm EDT Updated: 10/12/2015 5:59 pm EDT

Fear is often used to push public policy. Sometimes it is warranted, sometimes it is not. In the case of a transgender person's access to public bathrooms, I do not think there is reason for alarm.

In the Declaration of Independence states: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Accordingly, the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has an "Equal Protection Clause" to it.
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Good opinion piece by a Massachusetts State Representative

[suzifrommd]

Nice to have a friend or two in high places. If I submitted something like this (I actually did when the Florida law was being considered), HuffPost wouldn't even dignify it with an answer.

[Valwen]

Well Written and well reasoned, nothing new to a trans person but hopefully someone will be enlightened by this. And the comments, which I only read the first dozen or so where only like 50/50 awful which is impressive.

Serena