Got it, thanks very much! Two questions:
1. Isn't the response arguing that plaintiffs were dishonest in
the petition itself, not just in public statements about the ordinance?
2. Under the ordinance, would employers indeed be able to
exclude
Regarding your second question, I can tell you from my work as an ACLU activist
helping pass/implement the California law allowing equal access to sex
segregated activities/facilities in schools, AB 1266, that I heard repeatedly
that AB 1266 clarified but did not change existing California
I did a bit of looking, and saw that a Colorado Civil Rights
Division panel interpreted a ban on “transgender status” discrimination to
indeed conclude that people (in that case, children) who are biologically male
but who self-identify as female are legally entitled to use
Yes, the Trans community definitely believes that people should be able to
use the restroom they believe is appropriate for themselves. E.g.,
http://www.lambdalegal.org/know-your-rights/transgender/restroom-faq
Art Spitzer
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Perhaps I’m missing something. Does it really matter whether a judge or
governmental official finds that the proponents misstated or even intentionally
misrepresented the effect of the proposition? The government is refusing to
count petitions because a proponent engaged in core political
The accuracy of the ostensible scare claims depends, I suppose, on what they
actually said, and whether men-using-women’s-restrooms, as it was characterized
by Allen Asch, is the same as people who were assigned one sex at birth based
usually on genitalia using restrooms in conformity with
men-using-women’s-restrooms, as it was characterized by Allen Asch
To be clear, I was paraphrasing a statement on the anti-transgender rights
plaintiffs' petition claiming that Biological males ARE IN FACT allowed to
enter women's restrooms quoted on page 28 of the City of Houston's Response
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