Issue Position: On Rights of LGBT Individuals: Fighting Discrimination

Issue Position

I am proud to live in the state that was the first to recognize same-sex marriages and that has worked to prevent discrimination on every level. LGBT youth should be welcome in school without being singled out. We can and will work to treat all people the same, and distinguish them by their behavior, and not by their appearance, age, gender or who they love. I proudly voted to expand the civil rights of transgender people, including the right to use the bathroom where the person feels most comfortable. I will not engage in fear mongering, understanding the privacy concern of some people but realizing that no transgender person has ever been convicted of engaging a crime while in the rest room and no person convicted of a crime in a rest room has ever used the defense of transgender status as some sort of excuse to be in the bathroom.

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