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Unlike North Carolina, Virginia avoided LGBT controversy by waiting for court ruling
Unlike North Carolina, Virginia avoided LGBT controversy by waiting for court ruling
Posted: Monday, March 28, 2016 12:06 pm
By ANDREW CAIN Richmond Times-Dispatch
acain@timesdispatch.com
(804) 649-6645
Twitter: @AndrewCainRTD
Virginia lawmakers helped avoid the firestorm that has roiled North Carolina over LGBT rights by defeating a bill with similarities to the measure North Carolina’s governor signed last week.
On Feb. 9, a Virginia House of Delegates committee defeated a bill that would have required transgender students at Virginia public schools to use the restrooms and locker rooms of their biological sex.
Virginia lawmakers scuttled the bill, in part, to wait for an appeals court ruling — now expected any day — in the case of Gavin Grimm, a transgender student who is fighting to use a boys bathroom at his Gloucester County school.
“I do think our legislature showed admirable restraint and made the right decision,” said Clare Guthrie Gastañaga, executive director of the ACLU of Virginia, which is helping Grimm in court. The ACLU also considered the Virginia measure unnecessary and discriminatory.
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Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
Posted: Monday, March 28, 2016 12:06 pm
By ANDREW CAIN Richmond Times-Dispatch
acain@timesdispatch.com
(804) 649-6645
Twitter: @AndrewCainRTD
Virginia lawmakers helped avoid the firestorm that has roiled North Carolina over LGBT rights by defeating a bill with similarities to the measure North Carolina’s governor signed last week.
On Feb. 9, a Virginia House of Delegates committee defeated a bill that would have required transgender students at Virginia public schools to use the restrooms and locker rooms of their biological sex.
Virginia lawmakers scuttled the bill, in part, to wait for an appeals court ruling — now expected any day — in the case of Gavin Grimm, a transgender student who is fighting to use a boys bathroom at his Gloucester County school.
“I do think our legislature showed admirable restraint and made the right decision,” said Clare Guthrie Gastañaga, executive director of the ACLU of Virginia, which is helping Grimm in court. The ACLU also considered the Virginia measure unnecessary and discriminatory.
....
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
