For now, transgender rights bill stalls on Beacon Hill

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/11/30/for-now-transgender-bill-stalls-beacon-hill/FlXdEa3Ryv3tWviphg1iPO/story.html

Boston Globe/By David Scharfenberg Globe Staff  December 01, 2015

"In a recent private meeting with transgender rights activists, House majority leader Ronald Mariano, the gravel-voiced Quincy Democrat, offered up one of the many theories of politics he has developed during a long career on Beacon Hill."