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from the Chattanooga Times Free Press
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/jan/12/transgender-people-must-use-birth-gender-bathroom-/?breakingnews
NASHVILLE A Chattanooga lawmaker says he makes no apologies for his bill that prohibits transgender people from using use public bathrooms and dressing rooms that dont match the gender listed on their birth certificates.
Rep. Richard Floyd, R-Chattanooga, said today he introduced the bill after reading a news article about a Texas woman who said she was fired from Macys after blocking a male teen dressed as a woman from using a dressing room.
It could happen here, Floyd said. I believe if I was standing at a dressing room and my wife or one of my daughters was in the dressing room and a man tried to go in there I dont care if he thinks hes a woman and tries on clothes with them in there Id just try to stomp a mudhole in him and then stomp him dry.
Floyds bill, sponsored by Sen. Bo Watson, R-Hixson, in the Senate, makes such acts a Class C misdemeanor punishable by a $50 fine.
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my comment: there is a poll on that page if you want to pass on a little DU love...