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Title: Transgender rights bill passes on second try | and other related stories
Post by: Hazumu on April 08, 2009, 09:13:08 PM
Post by: Hazumu on April 08, 2009, 09:13:08 PM
Concord Monitor (http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/20090408/BREAK/904080299&commentsubmitted=2)
The Eagle Tribune
Letter: Democrats are ruining New Hampshire (http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_098020926.html?keyword=topstory)
Salem News
Lawyer says transgender bathroom bill a safety threat
By Matthew K. Roy (http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_098001352.html)
QuoteThe House debated more than three hours before voting 188-187 to send it to the Senate.
Republicans call it the "bathroom bill" based on the argument it would open all bathrooms to both men and women. Republicans said women and children would be put at risk if men came into the women's bathroom. They also complained the bill did not adequately define transgender individuals.
The Eagle Tribune
Letter: Democrats are ruining New Hampshire (http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_098020926.html?keyword=topstory)
QuoteThese stewards of public decency are now pushing a gem pertaining to "transgender" individuals. Under this bill, employers would be required to provide bathroom facilities to those who are caught somewhere between manhood and womanhood, as well as subsidize the cost of various anatomical revisions.
Salem News
Lawyer says transgender bathroom bill a safety threat
By Matthew K. Roy (http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_098001352.html)
QuoteLegislation designed to protect the state's transgendered population from discrimination poses a public safety threat, critics say.
A bill filed in the state House of Representatives would allow any man who claims to consider himself a woman access to a women's bathroom or locker room, Salem lawyer Phil Moran said yesterday.
"Someone could decide that he's a woman for the day and go right into the women's locker room," he said.