Massachusetts may have found a compromise for the transgender bathroom debate, which has states across the country railing against federal guidance advising that transgender people use the bathroom or locker room associated with their gender identity.
Republican Gov. Charlie Baker voiced his approval for a new bill currently in the state’s House of Representative, after months of declining to say whether he would support transgender rights legislation in line with the federal standard.
The new Massachusetts measure would allow transgender people to use the bathroom in line with the gender they associate with rather than their birth gender, but would include a provision addressing those who would claim a different gender identity “for an improper purpose.”...
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