We Cannot Sit On Our Laurels

It is time to take action.

There is no middle road, we have to speak up and speak out!

You don’t have to be an “out” trans person but you have to speak up or we are going to be made criminals each time we walk in to a store.

Move to repeal Massachusetts transgender protection law sees some support, polls show
An effort to repeal a law that provides protections to transgender people in pubic spaces may be on the November ballot.
Metro
By Kristin Toussaint
June 18, 2018

A measure may appear on the Massachusetts November ballot that would overturn a state law that protects transgender individuals in public spaces such as bathrooms — and it seems to have some support.

The transgender protections law was passed in 2016 and specifically outlaws discrimination against transgender people in public places such as parks, restaurants and public bathrooms. It allows transgender individuals to access the public spaces that align with their identified gender rather the one at which they were assigned at birth.

It has been called the “bathroom bill” as the topic of transgender people using public bathrooms that aligned with their identified gender had sparked into a national point of contention.

And that is how the haters are going to frame this… about bathrooms and locker rooms and we have to challenge that… it is about banks, it is about grocery stores, it is about restaurants, and it is about everything that we do every day in our lives.

We CANNOT ALLOW THIS TO BE NARROWLY FOCUSED!

According to a recent Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll, 37 percent of 500 voters surveyed said that they would support repealing the law and 49 percent of people opposed repealing it, instead in favor of keeping the protections. About 13 percent of people were undecided on the issue and about 1 percent refused to answer.

This is within the margin of error of the poll, it is a toss-up, and it is not a sure thing!

We have to focus on that 13 percent of the undecided, thank the 49 percent and ignore the 37 percent of bigots.

Out if state money is going to flow in to Massachusetts from organization like the Family Research Council an organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center lists as a hate group. You are going to see videos of grubby old men in girl’s bathrooms; you are going to see us portrayed in the worst possible light.

Our best weapon will be the fact that the since 2016 when the law was passed there has not been an incident that describe, but we have to be en garde for staged events. I wouldn’t put it past the zealots to stage an incident in a locker room or like in California follow a trans woman into a bathroom with a camera.

“Upholding #TransLawMA at the ballot will require one of the largest grassroots campaigns #Massachusetts has ever seen — making the case that our #trans neighbors should be treated with dignity and respect,” the organization Freedom for All Massachusetts, which spearheaded the law’s initial passage, said on Twitter last week. “It won't be easy, but we can win this!”

You cannot sit this out, if you are Massachusetts voter you have to take action.

I am a property owner in Massachusetts and every chance I get I am going to tell voters to vote “Yes” on the ballot question.