Women, children’s groups decry opponents of transgender bill
By State House News Service
Advocates for women and children intend to argue Monday that opponents of a bill to include transgender people in the state’s non-discrimination statute are spreading “dangerous myths about violence against women” by warning that the proposal would make bathrooms unsafe.
“Opposing this bill does nothing to protect people from sexual assault,” said Toni Troop, spokeswoman for Jane Doe Inc., the Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence, in a statement.
The proposal (H 1728 / S 1687) would add “gender identity or expression” to the state’s non-discrimination law.
Opponents of the proposal say the bill would allow male predators claiming to be transgender to use women’s restrooms, labeling the bill “the bathroom bill.”
Backers of the bill plan an 11:30 a.m. press conference at the foot of the Grand Staircase.




Comment by Foxxe on 4 June 2010:
It is very sad when someone would attempt to use TG’s in place of MEN to prove their FEAR of MEN. (- the CLINICAL definition of homophobia – the REAL danger)
If you are going to be THAT narrow minded and fearful of the world at large, then get your eyes out of everyone ELSE’s pants and worry more about your own, you perverts!. Transgenders are NOT sexual by nature. and SHE-MALE websites are mostly fraudulent.