Massachusetts is putting transgender rights up for public vote

[stephaniec]

Massachusetts is putting transgender rights up for public vote

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/10/13/massachusetts-is-putting-transgender-rights-up-for-public-vote/

Pink News/By Nick Duffy  13th October 2016, 11:19 AM

"Massachusetts is being forced to put a transgender rights law up for public vote, after a campaign led by anti-LGBT groups.
Earlier this year the state passed SB 735, which bans discrimination basis of gender identity in businesses and other places of public accommodation.
However, anti-LGBT evangelicals led a campaign against the law, gathering signatures for a 'Keep MA Safe' petition calling for a public vote on the law."

[Deborah]

"The group claims the law panders to "sexual predators who claim confusion about their gender as a cover for their evil intentions", suggesting that it would put women and children at risk. The group claims trans people will "undoubtedly abuse its existence to fulfill any number of deviant desires."

That statement has so many problems when it comes from a group who is the force behind the efforts to elect a self confessed sexual predator as President of the United States.  "Evangelical Family Values". LOL LOL LOL

[Eva Marie]

The majority should never get to vote on whether a minority has rights because the vote will always be "no'.

Minorities need legal protections under the law to ensure that they are treated fairly.

[RobynD]

The majority should never get to vote on whether a minority has rights because the vote will always be "no'.

Minorities need legal protections under the law to ensure that they are treated fairly.

bingo! a fundamental right of people that live in democratic countries.

[SadieBlake]

This has essentially zero chance of being voted in (knocking wood) however it serves to demonstrate that even the most liberal state in the union has its share of fundamentalist yahoos. Sadly this means lgbt organizations will have to spend time and resources on a campaign to ensure this law stays on the books.