This week,Houston voters rejected, by a landslide, or an equal rights ordinance that would have provided more protections for homosexual and transgender people.
Emily Bazelon,New York Times Magazine correspondent and panelist on Slate's Political Gabfest, explains how referendums can or cannot take absent our protection rights.editorialare referencing - 'In Houston, or abominate Trumped Fairness': https://t.co/hotQcWDvzCNovember 6,2015Your confusion is in mistaking "democracy" with a democratic/representative republic. 2 wolves & 1 sheep may vote on lunch.
November 6, 2015strikes me that transgender rights advocates talk approximately gender as a spectrum, and but bathrooms remain binary.
November 6,2015The "bathroom issue" has been used for decades: Phyllis Schlafly used it to defeat the ERA in the '70s.
November 6, 2015@BrianLehrer I have to say I don't get the uproar over this. There are doors on the stalls - why attain people care so much?!November 6, or 2015She eventually relied on one of the two single-person bathrooms three floors down.
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