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Attorney General Maura Healey presses for transgender rights bill
http://www.wcvb.com/news/attorney-general-maura-healey-presses-for-transgender-rights-bill/38595672
Attorney General Maura Healey presses for transgender rights bill
Published 10:22 AM EDT Mar 19, 2016
BOSTON —For Attorney General Maura Healey, few Beacon Hill fights feel quite as personal as the stalled effort to toughen civil rights protections for the state's transgender population.
Healey gathered with parents and their transgender children this week to talk about what she called "a really asinine situation" - that fact that while businesses can't legally discriminate against transgender people in hiring, they can refuse to serve them.
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At issue is legislation to expand a 2011 Massachusetts law banning discrimination against transgender people in the workplace and in housing by also banning discrimination in restaurants, malls and other public accommodations, including restrooms.
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Republican Gov. Charlie Baker isn't so sure.
