Restroom law needs more gender specifics

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Restroom law needs more gender specifics
Gloucester Daily Times
April 14, 2009


http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_103221057.html


Society should protect the rights of minorities. But it should do so with care and common sense, to make sure it does not trample the rights of everybody else.

That is not the case with a bill now pending in the Legislature — an Act Relative to Gender-based Discrimination and Hate Crimes — to allow transgendered persons to use public bathrooms of their choice. It needs more care and common sense before it comes to a vote.

It is one thing for a person born as a man who has been surgically altered to become a woman to be allowed to use the women's bathroom. It is something else entirely to allow a man who has had nothing altered, but simply claims he "identifies" as a woman, to use the women's bathroom.