New Hampshire to become 19th state with transgender nondiscrimination protections – ThinkProgress
[ad_1] With a bipartisan 14-10 vote Wednesday, the New Hampshire Senate approved a bil l adding “gender identity” to the list of identities protected under the state’s nondiscrimination law. Having already passed in the Republican-controlled House, it now heads to Gov. Chris Sununu (R), who has promised to sign it. New Hampshire will be the 19th state to explicitly protect transgender people from discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations. It’s also the first state to pass such a law since Maryland added gender identity in protections in 2014. New Hampshire lawmakers have considered trans protections since at least 2009. In general, states have recently been more focused on considering bills that limit rights for transgender people — if not outright mandate discrimination against them. Even neighboring Massachusetts, which updated its gender identity protections to include public accommodations in 2016, faces a referendum this year to repeal them. But trans ...