Thursday, 2 April 2015

'Bathroom surveillance' bills criticized for targeting transgender people in U.S.

Protesting-bill

Amid the national uproar over "religious freedom" legislation that critics say permits discrimination against gay people, there is also growing controversy over bills criticized for being "anti-transgender."


Lawmakers have proposed such bills in at least 12 states around the United States so far this year, ranging from Massachusetts to Oklahoma



"The number of anti-transgender bills we are seeing in 2015 is much higher than we have seen in previous years," Alison Gill, a senior legislative counsel at LGBT civil-rights advocacy group Human Rights Campaign, told Mashable Read more...


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