Flushing the 'Bathroom Bill' Fear Once and For All

[Shana A]

Flushing the 'Bathroom Bill' Fear Once and For All
Filed by: Mercedes Allen
March 22, 2011 7:00 PM

http://www.bilerico.com/2011/03/flushing_the_bathroom_bill_fear_once_and_for_all.php

or

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/21/958842/-Flushing-the-Bathroom-Bill-Fear-Once-and-For-All?showAll=yes

As I write this, the LGBT community is struggling with a situation in Maryland where the provision for "public accommodations" has been removed from a bill that proposes to extend human rights to trans people, due to the ongoing "bathroom bill" panic-generation tactic.

In Canada, Bill C-389 passed despite this same fearmongering, but faces an increasingly precarious situation in the Senate.

In Montana, the state is proposing legislation that aims to erase the protections for all LGBT people that had passed the previous year in the city of Missoula, where the "not in my bathroom" rhetoric failed... and where most pretexts of it have now been dropped in the battle against equality.