Anchorage, Alaska, voters reject anti-transgender bathroom bill

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Vox


A big victory for transgender rights in Alaska’s most populous city.
By German [e-mail]@vox.com Apr 6, 2018, 10:44pm EDT

Voters in Anchorage, Alaska, have defeated an anti-transgender bathroom measure.

Proposition 1 would have required everyone in Anchorage public spaces to use the locker room and bathroom that aligns with the gender they were assigned at birth — effectively barring trans people from using the facility that matches their gender identity.

Anchorage voted 53-47 against Proposition 1 with nearly all ballots counted, according to Anchorage Daily News.

With the measure’s defeat, existing nondiscrimination protections for trans people that were approved by the Anchorage Assembly in 2015 will remain in place.

Read more: https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/4/6/17197910/anchorage-alaska-transgender-proposition-1

[sakabatou]

1. Good. I'm sick of these bills

[Initech]

2. I'm sick of religious bullshit.

I really wish the Christian taliban would go away.

[Lucky Luciano]

4. I dont even think it is religious.

Religion is just used as a cover so that they don’t have to say they are straight up bigots.

I met plenty of homo/trans phobes who were indifferent to religion, but had that white working class tough guy persona that they loved to project.

“Yo, look at doze (sic) fruits ova-dher (over there)!”

[7962]

5. When I was in Atlanta recently, I saw the solution to most of these problems.

Every bathroom in the facility was neutral. Male or female, you could walk in & do your business.
Probably saved money because they didnt have to build 2 everywhere. Easy.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Kick (nt)