N.H. Senate panel rejects transgender bill

[Forkboy]

CONCORD, N.H. - Former corrections officer Toni Maviki choked on her words as she described being pummeled against a concrete wall by a fellow guard who learned she was transitioning from being a man to being a woman.

The 52-year-old from Danbury filed complaints that led to further harassment until finally quitting her job, she testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday on legislation to extend antidiscrimination law protections to transgender people.

But the committee was not swayed by her story or others. After a three-hour hearing, the committee voted 5 to 0 to recommend killing the bill.
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"They snapped rubber bands against my breasts," Maviki testified of her treatment by other guards. "I was kicked. I carried a badge, and I protected all you people, and there was no law to protect me from harm."

Republicans had labeled it the "bathroom bill," based on the argument it would open all bathrooms to both men and women. Republicans said women and children would be put at risk if men came into women's restrooms.
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Much more ugliness here...read at your own risk of vomiting.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2009/04/24/nh_senate_panel_rejects_transgender_bill/

[orleans]

1. ugh. so where do transgendered people go to the bathroom now?

these repukes make me puke!