Ad Campaign Fights Transgender 'Bathroom Bill'

Jul 2, 2009 10:07 pm US/Eastern

BOSTON (WBZ) ― They call themselves transgendered -- people who are attempting to become members of the opposite sex.

Thirteen states have laws to protect them from discrimination. But an effort on Beacon Hill is being fought with an ad campaign that calls it "the bathroom bill."

So what's the bathroom bill?

It's a reference to the fact that the transgendered civil rights bill would prohibit gender-based discrimination in facilities like public bathrooms. And opponents of the measure have seized on that detail as a way to dramatize their resistance.

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