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www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/3/22/tennessees-anti-trans-bathroom-bill-goes-down-drain

One bill that didn't pass.  And look:

Rep. Rick Womick, a Republican member of the committee, said he had changed his position on the bill from support to opposition after hearing from a transgender girl and her parents about the harm it would cause.

Amazing!  If you listen, you can learn.  Brilliant!

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“I never thought I’d be speaking like this on a bill like this,” he said in today’s meeting, according to the Nashville Scene. “It’s not broke. Why are we trying to fix something that’s not broke? … Here goes government going in there and saying, ‘Nope, we know how to do it better. You have to do it this way.’ And we’re really going to screw things up.”

There may be more Republicans that might be equally responsive to some real contact with transgenders to become educated. Let's face it, most Republicans have had little or no exposure to trans folks so their votes are usually knee-jerk reactions to some negative tripe that one or more bigots puts in front of them.