“There are situations addressed in the bill that if someone wants to change their sex, they can change it if they want to do that, but I think if a woman and a female child want to use the restroom, then they shouldn’t have to deal with the fact that a man has a right to walk in there because he identifies as that gender that day”. A group of them remained until Wednesday.
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“As the father of daughters, I’m not terribly excited about men being able to go alone into a bathroom with my daughters”, Cruz said, during an MSNBC town hall in Buffalo, in advance of the New York State primary.
Democratic state Sen. Joel Lourie of Richland County, who was also on the subcommittee, said after the hearing he opposes the bill.
Richardson wrote a newspaper column this week in which he regrets supporting the legislation, saying he’s been “haunted” by his hasty vote.
But others felt the law is necessary.
The next regular work session for the General Assembly begins April 25.
You will have heard how Gov. Pat McCrory, who signed the law, now finds himself in the “Crossfire of GOP Civil War”, as a Washington Post headline (4/13/16) sympathetically put it. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, a Republican, has said the proposed law was unnecessary and unlikely to win legislative approval this year.
What you have heard little or none of is what Media Matters research fellow Carlos Maza (3/24/16) called “The Question Every Reporter Should Be Asking About Transgender Bathroom Bans”, namely: “How Is the Government Supposed to Figure Out a Person’s Biological Sex?”
Opponents of the new law want a complete repeal.
A growing number of musicians have canceled concerts in North Carolina in protest, including Cyndi Lauper, Bruce Springsteen and Ringo Starr.
Dear Reader, our hearts are deeply grieved by the ongoing devastation in Iraq, and through this we have been compelled to take a stand at the gates of hell against the enemy who came to kill and destroy. “Spread peace and love”. And LGBT people are going public in increasing numbers, putting a personal face on an issue that could once be held at arm’s length.
Mississippi’s governor signed a law that allows businesses to refuse services to gays; Georgia’s governor vetoed a similar bill passed by lawmakers. She says there’s no way she’ll ever use a men’s bathroom again.
The son of Billy Graham is telling people who attend the rallies that Christians need to get more involved in politics and bring Biblical principles to public office.
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. Ted Cruz says he supports the ability of North Carolina lawmakers to pass a law restricting bathroom access for gay and transgender people.
“I asked Senator Bright to look at me and to acknowledge my existence and how would he feel with me in the restroom next to him?”
“Go to the bathroom the Good Lord made you to go to”, said David Angel, a Rock Hill native.
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McCrory also issued an executive order on Tuesday to expand’s the state’s equal employment opportunity policy to include sexual orientation and gender identification.
