{"id":18017,"date":"2016-05-10T08:50:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T12:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/?p=18017"},"modified":"2016-05-10T11:44:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T15:44:43","slug":"state-assembly-approves-gender-non-discrimination-bill-unlikely-to-see-passage-in-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/state-assembly-approves-gender-non-discrimination-bill-unlikely-to-see-passage-in-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"State Assembly Approves Gender Non-Discrimination Bill, Unlikely to see Passage in Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The New York State Assembly Chambers<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

ALBANY – The Democratic-controlled New York State Assembly<\/strong> has voted 81-46 on a gender non-discrimination bill. The bill, however, has gone nowhere in the Republican-led Senate<\/strong>, a fact that some of the Assembly Republicans alluded to in the debate prior to voting against the measure.<\/p>\n

According to the Albany Times-Union<\/em>, prior to the Assembly vote Richard Gottfried<\/strong> (D-Manhattan) debated with Republicans who expressed fears that such a measure would give free rein to men who, claiming to be transgender, might work their way into women\u2019s locker rooms or other spots where they could launch a sexual assault. Gottfried and others say there\u2019s been relatively little evidence of that and he noted that a man could simply dress as a woman in order to gain access to locker or rest rooms.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s discussion was notable for if no other reason than the legal battle between the federal government and the state of North Carolina related to the same issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ALBANY – The Democratic-controlled New York State Assembly has voted 81-46 on a gender non-discrimination bill. The bill, however, has gone nowhere in the Republican-led Senate, a fact that some of the Assembly Republicans alluded to in the debate prior to voting against the measure. According to the Albany Times-Union, prior to the Assembly vote […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"State Assembly Approves Gender Non-Discrimination Bill, Unlikely to see Passage in Senate","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[6451,3478,2091,2103,5400],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/assemblychambers.jpg?fit=662%2C387&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YlJ4-4GB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18018,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18017\/revisions\/18018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}