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 three tall transgender women entered.
The three individuals, all over six feet tall, spoke with deep voices, Maya Dillard Smith, the former ACLU official, said in a statement provided to the liberal Atlanta Progressive News last week.
BOSTON — After a virtual marathon of proposed amendments, moral platitudes and the occasional outburst from the gallery by supporters and opponents alike, the state House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that would ensure access to the public bathroom or changing room of choice for transgender people.
Wednesday's pivotal 116-36 largely party-line vote saw a crush of activists fill the State House's corridors and atriums as action on this particular issue drew the biggest crowds of the current session to demonstrate and lobby lawmakers. Meanwhile, inside the chamber, a series of Republican-sponsored amendments aimed at adding privacy restrictions and enforcement measures onto the so-called "bathroom bill" died one after another.
