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Watch This New Ad That Explains Exactly Why Anti-Trans Laws Like North Carolina's HB2 Make No Sense (Original Post)
G_j
May 2016
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longship
(40,416 posts)1. Can one imagine him going into a woman's toilet?
Now that would cause a real ruckus!
What utter madness has inflicted these state legislatures/governors?
I know. Their Jesus and the Holy Bible, which should have nothing whatsoever to do with government.
Fuck them all!
Oneironaut
(5,504 posts)2. They make perfect sense to me.
They're not made for their stated purpose. Their real purpose is to harass the transgender community. The motive is an irrational religious one, not public safety. They want to force transgender people into the wrong bathroom so that they get harassed (or worse). They think being transgender is a choice, and they want to dissuade as many people from transitioning to their real gender as possible to appease their God.
It's stupid, but it's the real reason they want this law.
G_j
(40,367 posts)3. A tangled plan ensnared McCrory in HB2
http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/ned-barnett/article72280037.html
A tangled plan ensnared McCrory in HB2
The fallout from House Bill 2, with its usurpation of local powers and its codification of discrimination, is broad and ongoing. But one aspect of this legislative disaster remains mysterious and unexplored: How did a bill packed with so many profoundly divisive provisions get swept through the legislature in a one-day special session and signed into law within hours of its passage?
An excellent picture of the origins of HB2 lies in a Sept. 29, 2015 story reported by The News and Observers Colin Campbell. Its a rare and now valuable account because it focuses not on what passed at the chaotic end of the session but on an attempted legislative coup that failed.
The story reports on the work of a conference committee, a panel appointed to work out differences on bill language between the House and Senate. The committee was chaired by two Republican lawmakers from Wake County, Rep. Paul Stam and his former staffer and now state senator, Chad Barefoot. The committee took up competing versions of a bill about professional counseling and added unrelated, sweeping amendments that later re-emerged as key provisions of HB2. And it may explain why the bathroom bill oddly contains a provision on the minimum wage.
Campbell wrote that the rewritten bill seemed to overhaul a wide range of nondiscrimination ordinances, housing regulations and workplace regulations that some cities and counties have adopted. The new version also barred the establishment of a local minimum wage.
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/ned-barnett/article72280037.html#storylink=cpy
A tangled plan ensnared McCrory in HB2
The fallout from House Bill 2, with its usurpation of local powers and its codification of discrimination, is broad and ongoing. But one aspect of this legislative disaster remains mysterious and unexplored: How did a bill packed with so many profoundly divisive provisions get swept through the legislature in a one-day special session and signed into law within hours of its passage?
An excellent picture of the origins of HB2 lies in a Sept. 29, 2015 story reported by The News and Observers Colin Campbell. Its a rare and now valuable account because it focuses not on what passed at the chaotic end of the session but on an attempted legislative coup that failed.
The story reports on the work of a conference committee, a panel appointed to work out differences on bill language between the House and Senate. The committee was chaired by two Republican lawmakers from Wake County, Rep. Paul Stam and his former staffer and now state senator, Chad Barefoot. The committee took up competing versions of a bill about professional counseling and added unrelated, sweeping amendments that later re-emerged as key provisions of HB2. And it may explain why the bathroom bill oddly contains a provision on the minimum wage.
Campbell wrote that the rewritten bill seemed to overhaul a wide range of nondiscrimination ordinances, housing regulations and workplace regulations that some cities and counties have adopted. The new version also barred the establishment of a local minimum wage.
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/ned-barnett/article72280037.html#storylink=cpy
G_j
(40,367 posts)4. Election-year divisions rock North Carolina’s GOP