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[–] ArbitraryValue 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Sununu vetoed H.B. 396, which would have allowed any person or organization to use “biological sex” as criteria for accessing gender-specific spaces such as bathrooms, locker rooms, and prisons

“the challenge with H.B. 396 is that in some cases it seeks to solve problems that have not presented themselves in New Hampshire, and in doing so invites unnecessary discord.”

The bills Sununu did sign, though, force schools to re-organize sports so transgender student-athletes athletes cannot participate on the teams associated with their gender, ban gender-affirming surgery for minors, and require that teachers notify parents two weeks in advance if they are discussing topic related to gender or sexual orientation.

I think that overall this is a moderate set of policies and appropriate for New Hampshire (a state I lived in and like a lot). He vetoed the bill that would have a large impact on the quality of life of trans people. Meanwhile the issue of transgender athletes is both unpopular and unimportant; if I were the governor, I would have vetoed it for the same reason he vetoed H.B. 396, but given that he didn't, I think it's definitely not a fight worth picking. Even the New York Times is running articles very critical of surgery on minors. And I had assumed that schools were already informing parents before discussing any sort of sex-ed or sex-ed-adjacent topics.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

New Hampshire legalized genital checks for participating in children's sports and regulated morality in the doctor's office. As a proud denizen of the Green Mountains, fuck you Whites. This is a dark, perverted path you're walking. I'll be damned before I let my kids go to school where they're forced to pull up their skirts to play soccer

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