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Bigots lose again...!
North Carolina's Governor is looking for ways to walk back NC's LGBT discrimination law. Georgia's Governor refused to sign their LGBT discrimination law. Indiana... well, you get the picture.
The bigot that sponsored then killed the discrimination bill is saying she'll try again to get Tennessee's LGBT discrimination law passed but-----but IMO she's just saying that so she doesn't look like any more of an idiot than she already does... #trying
Tennessee Flushes 'Bathroom Bill'
Trudy Ring
April 18 2016
Tennessee’s anti-transgender “bathroom bill” has gone down the drain again — and it will apparently stay there for at least a year.
In March, a legislative committee had delayed action on the bill by sending it to a summer study session, but the committee, under pressure from the far-right Family Action Council of Tennessee, revived it in early April. Today, though, its sponsor in the House of Representatives, Susan Lynn, said she would withdraw the bill until next year, reports Nashville paper The Tennessean.
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However, executives with numerous companies signed on to a letter expressing concern about the bill and sent it to Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the Senate Ron Ramsey and Speaker of the House Beth Harwell. The executives didn’t go so far as to threaten to pull out of Tennessee, but they said that laws like the one proposed “are bad for our employees and bad for business.” They also said such laws would make it more difficult to attract and retain the best workers.
The bill was also likely to cost the state federal education funding, as it would conflict with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which bans sex discrimination in schools that receive federal money. The U.S. Department of Education has held that sex discrimination includes discrimination based on gender identity. Tennessee’s attorney general had issued an opinion saying if the bill became law, it was very likely to result in a loss of federal funding, which Tennessee schools receive to the tune of $3 billion a year.
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Bigots lose again...!
North Carolina's Governor is looking for ways to walk back NC's LGBT discrimination law. Georgia's Governor refused to sign their LGBT discrimination law. Indiana... well, you get the picture.
The bigot that sponsored then killed the discrimination bill is saying she'll try again to get Tennessee's LGBT discrimination law passed but-----but IMO she's just saying that so she doesn't look like any more of an idiot than she already does... #trying
Tennessee Flushes 'Bathroom Bill'
Trudy Ring
April 18 2016
Tennessee’s anti-transgender “bathroom bill” has gone down the drain again — and it will apparently stay there for at least a year.
In March, a legislative committee had delayed action on the bill by sending it to a summer study session, but the committee, under pressure from the far-right Family Action Council of Tennessee, revived it in early April. Today, though, its sponsor in the House of Representatives, Susan Lynn, said she would withdraw the bill until next year, reports Nashville paper The Tennessean.
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However, executives with numerous companies signed on to a letter expressing concern about the bill and sent it to Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the Senate Ron Ramsey and Speaker of the House Beth Harwell. The executives didn’t go so far as to threaten to pull out of Tennessee, but they said that laws like the one proposed “are bad for our employees and bad for business.” They also said such laws would make it more difficult to attract and retain the best workers.
The bill was also likely to cost the state federal education funding, as it would conflict with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which bans sex discrimination in schools that receive federal money. The U.S. Department of Education has held that sex discrimination includes discrimination based on gender identity. Tennessee’s attorney general had issued an opinion saying if the bill became law, it was very likely to result in a loss of federal funding, which Tennessee schools receive to the tune of $3 billion a year.
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