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AG Healey Joins Beacon Hill Leadership And An 8-Year-Old From Melrose To Rip Trump’s Transgender Policy Shift

BOSTON — President Donald Trump's revocation of a set of public accommodations "guidelines" for how to treat transgender public school students enacted by former president Barack Obama's administration prompted howls of criticism this week, especially from Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey. Healey on Thursday organized

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‘Bathroom’ bill conference is no big deal, Rosenberg says

BOSTON – Days after theMassachusetts House of Representatives followed the Senate's lead and passed a "bathroom bill" giving transgender individuals access to the sex-segregated public facilities of their choice, Senate President Stanley Rosenberg said Monday that "timing" will be most significant question to resolve between

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Transgender bathroom access fight triggers exit at ACLU

ATLANTA – The executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Georgia chapter recently resigned over the legal advocacy organization's stance on transgender access issues, pointing to the "frightened" reaction of her two young daughters when they were in a women's restroom after

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Transgenderism and the death of common sense

Sixty years ago, there were two universally known sex symbols in the West: Marilyn Monroe in America and Bridget Bardot in France. Most millennials have heard of Marilyn Monroe, if for no other reason than the scandals with the Kennedy brothers. But my admittedly anecdotal experience leads me to believe

Maura Healey

Baker scrambles political calculus on House ‘bathroom bill’

BOSTON – Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said Tuesday that he would sign the version of the so-called bathroom bill pending in the state House of Representatives, citing the measure's directive calling on Attorney General Maura Healey to craft a series of protective regulations. But critics question Healey's

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Baker relents, says he’d sign the House bathroom bill

BOSTON – On the eve of a debate in the state House of Representatives on access to public facilities for transgender people, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said Tuesday he would sign a version of the so-called bathroom bill currently before lawmakers in the lower chamber. "No one should be discriminated

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‘Bathroom bill’ foes ask House lawmakers to protect privacy

BOSTON – Opponents hit Beacon Hill Tuesday to rally against proposals that would mandate access to public bathrooms or changing rooms for individuals based on the gender of their choice, two weeks after the state Senate overwhelmingly passed a so-called bathroom bill and in anticipation of a vote as soon as

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‘Bathroom bill’ comes under fire over privacy, safety

BOSTON – Opponents of a proposal that would let people in Massachusetts use sex-segregated public bathrooms and changing rooms of their choice, regardless of their anatomy, spoke out on Beacon Hill Wednesday against a growing chorus accusing them of discrimination. Speaking to reporters at the State House, Kaeley Triller shot back