Michigan Republicans Want Their Chance In The Anti-Trans Spotlight, Too

Michigan’s Republican lawmakers seem to be feeling a bit left out of the anti-transgender backlash sweeping state legislatures and attorneys general’s offices. This week, it got its own bill limiting restroom use for transgender students and made its own attempt to push back on the Obama administration’s guidance protecting them from such restrictions.

State Sen. Tom Casperson (R) has been contemplating his anti-transgender bill for a few months. Independent of events in other states like North Carolina, the Michigan State Board of Education revealed new voluntary guidance for accommodating transgender students — not so dissimilar from the federal government’s — back in February. Though he’d been teasing it since then, Casperson didn’t introduce his bill until this week....
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2016/05/27/3782671/michigan-transgender-response/