My June 14, 2011 Letter to Dean Skelos on GENDA
The New York Transgender Rights Organization
Joann Prinzivalli, State Director
http://trans-cendence.blogspot.com/2011/06/my-june-14-2011-letter-to-dean-skelos.html (http://trans-cendence.blogspot.com/2011/06/my-june-14-2011-letter-to-dean-skelos.html)
Dear Senator Skelos:
The Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA) (S2873/A5039) just today passed in the Assembly for the fourth time.
I am writing to urge you to put this bill to the floor for a vote. I understand that you can put it through Rules and get it to the floor that way.
I am saddened by listening to some of the Assembly debate – some Republican assembly members have an understanding of the meaning of the bill to protect "a man who might one day decide he feels like a woman, and immediately start using the women's restroom" or might in some way be used to protect sexual predators. I assure you that this bill would not provide any protection for a voyeur or any other male sexual predator who might want to wander into a women's restroom or locker room.