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Arizona’s transgender community fights toilet ban

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From The Guardian UK:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/20/arizona-transgender-community-toilet-ban

Equality groups condemn plan to prevent transgender people from using public facilities not associated with birth gender

Associated Press
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 20 March 2013

Legislators in Arizona want to ban transgender people from using public toilets, showers and dressing rooms not associated with their birth gender, in the latest tussle over equal rights in the US state.

The proposal comes less than a month after the Phoenix passed a human rights bill prohibiting gender identity discrimination in public accommodations.

Arizona’s Republican representative, John Kavanagh, has been campaigning to make it a criminal offence for a transgender person to use a public facility associated with a gender other than what is recorded on his or her birth certificate.

Complete article at:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/20/arizona-transgender-community-toilet-ban

See Also:

BBC:  Arizona debates transgender access to public toilets

Think Progress:  Arizona Lawmaker Introduces Bill To Prosecute Transgender People Who Use The ‘Wrong’ Bathroom

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