Post by Ayla on Jan 10, 2016 5:42:24 GMT 8
A Republican state lawmaker's solution to settle a controversy over LGBT protections: Eliminate gender identity.
Lawmakers in Indiana are feeling the heat from business leaders, voters, and the local media about enacting protections against anti-LGBT discrimination in the wake of last year’s religious freedom act debacle. But a Republican state senator wants to keep anti-transgender discrimination legal, while GOP House leaders are declaring LGBT protections are not even on their priority list for the 2016 session.
Sen. Travis Holdman filed a new bill Thursday, Senate Bill 334, which would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation but not gender identity, effectively taking the T out of LGBT protections, reports the The Indianapolis Star.
www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/1/07/new-indiana-bill-would-legalize-anti-trans-discrimination
Lawmakers in Indiana are feeling the heat from business leaders, voters, and the local media about enacting protections against anti-LGBT discrimination in the wake of last year’s religious freedom act debacle. But a Republican state senator wants to keep anti-transgender discrimination legal, while GOP House leaders are declaring LGBT protections are not even on their priority list for the 2016 session.
Sen. Travis Holdman filed a new bill Thursday, Senate Bill 334, which would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation but not gender identity, effectively taking the T out of LGBT protections, reports the The Indianapolis Star.
www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/1/07/new-indiana-bill-would-legalize-anti-trans-discrimination