Transgender rights battle heating up on Beacon Hill
http://www.lowellsun.com/todaysheadlines/ci_29707818/transgender-rights-battle-heating-up-beacon-hill?source=rss
The Lowell Sun
Updated: 03/31/2016 06:35:49 AM EDT
By Heather Goldin
Statehouse Correspondent
BOSTON -- Massachusetts may turn into the next battleground over transgender rights.
Although legislative leaders support a well-publicized bill that would add anti-discrimination protections to transgender people using public accommodations, a lesser discussed bill also before the joint judiciary committee would take an opposite tack. That bill would limit access to public bathrooms and locker rooms to individuals' anatomical sex and not their own declared gender identity.
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Who would have thought that Massachusetts would become a bathroom battleground state, bur that's what it's looking like.
Interesting.
I cannot fathom my supposed fellow "CONservative" counterparts here.
How will they know? (Bearing in mind there are undercover police trolling the Jersey State Parkway and other places)...
Will they be (properly) sued if they go after a butch or ugly woman? (That would be a hoot, from the outside.)
How about when a woman sneaks into the men's room, because there's no line? (Or will it be selective enforcement there, too?)
Those saying, "There oughta be a law..." generally don't seem to be too reflective of how things work. Also, it's the opposite of conservative (small c, no Con going on).
Need a 'splainin' stick like the ones at Kult of Athena... >:-)
-D
Transgender Public Accommodations Bill Remains Stalled In Mass. Legislature
By Steve Brown 4/1/2016
http://www.wbur.org/2016/04/01/massachusetts-transgender-public-accommodations-bill-stalled
As North Carolina faces backlash over the approval of a bill that blocks local governments from passing anti-discrimination rules to protect gay and transgender people, a bill to expand legal protections for those populations here in Massachusetts remains bottled up in a legislative committee.
With only four months left in the Legislature's annual session, time is running out to pass the measure, which seeks to prohibit discrimination against transgender people in public accommodations — and a lot of questions remain.
The bill (S735, H1577) picks up where a previous law left off almost four and a half years ago. That law, enthusiastically signed by then-Gov. Deval Patrick in 2011, extended protections for transgender people by banning discrimination in the areas of housing and employment.
A controversial provision to expand that law to include public accommodations — meaning restaurants, lodging, gender-segregated changing rooms and restrooms — was removed from the 2011 bill to ensure passage of the broader legislation.
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So sad that this is going on in our progressive state...
Even Massachusetts? >:(
In massachusetts we can't even decide if we are for or against it we get both bills. I am getting very sick of finding new reasons to hate society every single day.
Serena
So I guess Australians need to be avoid in the USA these days if they have X in their passports for gender. Which bathrooms are they supposed to use?
https://www.passports.gov.au/passportsexplained/theapplicationprocess/eligibilityoverview/Pages/changeofsexdoborpob.aspx
Quote from: AnonyMs on April 02, 2016, 05:24:42 PM
So I guess Australians need to be avoid in the USA these days if they have X in their passports for gender. Which bathrooms are they supposed to use?
https://www.passports.gov.au/passportsexplained/theapplicationprocess/eligibilityoverview/Pages/changeofsexdoborpob.aspx
I didn't see anywhere in the article where it referenced passports or birth certificates. America certainly doesn't come across as a trans friendly place for us to visit though.
Quote from: Valwen on April 02, 2016, 04:42:36 PM
[...] I am getting very sick of finding new reasons to hate society every single day.
Serena
I find it's impossible to underestimate the human race.
They keep finding a new low...
-Dianna
Quote from: Serenation on April 03, 2016, 12:50:41 AM
I didn't see anywhere in the article where it referenced passports or birth certificates. America certainly doesn't come across as a trans friendly place for us to visit though.
True, its referring to anatomical sex. I've read so many of these things recently its hard to keep track of the details.
However what I meant was that if you're an Australian traveling to the USA you could use your passport to legally prove your gender, which will be M, F, or X.
Which restroom do you use if you're legally of gender X?