North Dakota’s state Senate set a record of sorts by passing 10 anti-LGBTQ bills Monday.
North Dakota’s state Senate set a record of sorts by passing 10 anti-LGBTQ bills Monday—in what the Human Rights Campaign, a pro-LGBTQ advocacy group, called “the highest number of legislative attacks targeting the community in a single day.” Eight of those bills are now on their way to GOP Gov. Doug Burgum, who will either approve or veto the measures.
Two bills have been thrown back to the House for amendments; one which prohibits gender marker changes on birth certificates if a person identifies as transgender and another which prohibits transgender people from using bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identity in certain state-operated facilities. “It’s shameful, yet not surprising,” HRC State Legislative Director and Senior Counsel Cathryn Oakley said in a statement.
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