But transgender people and their family members disagreed, saying the law would lead to scorn and potential violence against them. Years ago, we kept talking about tolerance, tolerance and tolerance. Lee Bright’s proposed bathroom bill that would prevent local governments from granting protections to transgender individuals from going to their bathroom of choice, a pair of transgender teens delivered their own testimony on the issue.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) Transgender people said Thursday they fear a SC bill that would require them to use the public bathroom for their biological sex will stoke misguided fears and endorse restroom vigilantism, even if the bill ultimately dies as expected. “This is a law that doesn’t need to be passed”.
Bright’s bill is largely mirroring a similar bill that was signed into law in North Carolina in March.
However, they’ve found opponents where they might have once found allies.
At the SC hearing, opponents said the proposal would do the opposite of its purported intention.
“On most of the things in your survey, on the fact that it’s probably doing some damage to the state, that we need to go back and revisit some of the other provisions, I’m pretty much down the line on those things”, Goodman said. “We saw some incredible, fearless people step forward today who gave some of the most moving testimony I’ve heard in my 18 years of public service'”. The meeting will be in room 308 in the Gressette Senate office building at the Statehouse. Sen.
“Plenty of folks across the South are hurting – they feel their religious beliefs or heritage is being attacked. South Carolinians can”, said Huffmon. We had no time to get feedback.
That support is finding one of the softest spots for conservatives are in their wallets.
If it passes the Senate’s full General Committee, Lourie vowed to do everything he can, procedurally, to kill the proposal.
State Chamber of Commerce CEO Ted Pitts says Bright’s creating a nonexistent political crisis to save his political career.
“The needs of the many outweigh the needs of a few”. They said the MS bill protects the freedom to run a business or a group without being told what to do by the government.
Haley said South Carolinians are generally respectful and kind, and a law is unwanted.
But big business isn’t agreeing. He misses most of a class, and also has to deal with stares and questions about why he’s going there. But that might be changing, said Charles Bullock, a political science professor at the University of Georgia. She said Bright never returned her call. “And I think that’s a perfectly reasonable determination for the people to make”.
But the South isn’t almost as homogenous as it used to be.
Ringo Starr has joined Bruce Springsteen in taking action over a North Carolina law that blocks anti-discrimination laws for the LGBT community. Smaller cities in the South have also grown rapidly as people come from elsewhere.
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“There may be a possibility of some consideration to place employment discrimination back into the state”, Tucker said, adding that he doesn’t believe the rules should revert to what they were before. According to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), transsexuals/transgender people are people who transition or want to transition from one sex to another.
