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Please, sign this petition to strike down the transphobic Arizona bathroom bill.
http://www.change.org/petitions/arizona-legislative-bodies-repeal-strike-down-the-transphobic-bathroom-bill-sb1045Petition SB1045 only needs a few more signatures. Please follow the link and show your support by signing the petition.
SB1045, passed through AZ House committee on Wednesday, March 27th, 2013, is absolutely reprehensible and does nothing to advance our great state of Arizona. This bill targets ALL of Arizona's citizens, especially our trans-identified citizens. By allowing small business owners to deny your access to their public restroom facilities, they are given the power by law to dictate your gender identity based off of how they perceive it. The passing of SB1045 sponsors a culture of harassment and violence, which sociological and psychological statistics show, is already devastating transgender populations. Men and women, regardless of trans identity, that do not appear with masculine or feminine norms for their perceived sex, could, and will be discriminated against if this bill becomes law.,
SB1045, passed through AZ House committee on Wednesday, March 27th, 2013, is absolutely reprehensible and does nothing to advance our great state of Arizona. This bill targets ALL of Arizona's citizens, especially our trans-identified citizens. By allowing small business owners to deny your access to their public restroom facilities, they are given the power by law to dictate your gender identity based off of how they perceive it. The passing of SB1045 sponsors a culture of harassment and violence, which sociological and psychological statistics show, is already devastating transgender populations. Men and women, regardless of trans identity, that do not appear with masculine or feminine norms for their perceived sex, could, and will be discriminated against if this bill becomes law.,
Thanks so much.
Also:
The Bisbee City Council has backed down in the face of legal pressure from Arizona’s attorney general and will rewrite its controversial ordinance granting civil unions.
The council voted Thursday to nullify the measure it passed on April 2 and then voted to instruct the city attorney to revise the language and bring it back to the council in the next few weeks.
“(City Attorney) John MacKinnon is rewording it just a little bit,” said Bisbee Councilman Gene Conners, who proposed granting civil unions. “Really, it’s just taking a word out. The hot word apparently was ‘union.
The Bisbee City Council has backed down in the face of legal pressure from Arizona’s attorney general and will rewrite its controversial ordinance granting civil unions.
The council voted Thursday to nullify the measure it passed on April 2 and then voted to instruct the city attorney to revise the language and bring it back to the council in the next few weeks.
“(City Attorney) John MacKinnon is rewording it just a little bit,” said Bisbee Councilman Gene Conners, who proposed granting civil unions. “Really, it’s just taking a word out. The hot word apparently was ‘union.
We are waiting to see how the scenario in Bisbee plays out, and after they work the bugs out, we most likely will be trying to pass an ordinance granting civil unions in one of our little towns here in rural N. Central AZ.
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