Transgender Girl Lobbies Maine Lawmakers to Maintain Civil Rights Protections

[Natasha]

Transgender Girl Lobbies Maine Lawmakers to Maintain Civil Rights Protections

http://www.mpbn.net/Home/tabid/36/ctl/ViewItem/mid/3478/ItemId/16666/Default.aspx
6/6/11
Reported By: Susan Sharon

This week the Maine Legislature is expected to vote on a controversial bill that would repeal civil rights protections for transgender people. LD 1046 would say that unless otherwise specified, rest rooms, showers and locker rooms designated for one biological sex are restricted to that biological sex. Transgender people denied access to such facilities would no longer be able to claim discrimination under the Maine Human Rights Act. Among those closely watching the outcome of the legislation is a 13-year-old transgender girl and her family.

They call it going "stealth" and for the past two years that's what 13-year-old Nicole, her brother and her parents have been doing. For their personal safety they asked that their last names and their hometown not be identified.

Susan Sharon: "Tell me about 'stealth.' What does that mean?"

Jonas: "It really means just not telling people. I wouldn't call it exactly lying. I would just call it not telling them."

[darklady]

The law is idiotic. I cannot understand sane reason why people should use restrooms according to their Chromosomes. In case it would be based on genitalia it would make more sense.