Wednesday, August 17, 2016

New Hampshire Republicans Being Republicans

The purple state in the Northeast the Republican candidate for governor is behaving just like all the Republicans.
Edelblut: N.H. should push back over transgender bathroom policy
Concord Monitor
By Allie Morris
August 17, 2016

If elected governor, Republican Frank Edelblut would push back on the federal policy that calls for transgender people to use the bathroom matching their chosen identity, he said Tuesday.

“I don’t think we need the federal government dictating that type of policy to us,” said Edelblut, a first-term state representative from Wilton. “It’s a practical issue. I think that people should use the bathrooms that are associated with their physiological gender.”

Transgender issues have exploded as a national debate in recent months and New Hampshire has waded into the discussion. Attorney General Joe Foster recently signed onto a brief supporting the Obama administration’s guidelines on transgender student bathroom use.

The state doesn’t have a law on the books protecting transgender people from discrimination, but Gov. Maggie Hassan signed an executive order in June that bars such bias in state government.
Democratic governor Maggie Hassan administration has filed a brief in support of the U.S. Department of Education Title IX defense against a laws suit by Texas and other Republican governors and it was the Republican control legislature that shot down a bill to give us protection in 2009 with a vote of 24-0.

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