Post by Logan on Apr 29, 2016 21:34:16 GMT -6
Topeka -- Seventeen-year-old Tavarus Lafever, a transgender male, had a message Friday for lawmakers at the Kansas statehouse.
“We go to the restroom for the same reason everyone else does,” said Lafever, of Wichita. “Let us pee in peace.”
LGBT advocates held a protest Friday on the steps of the Capitol against a transgender bathroom bill introduced in the Legislature last month. It would require transgender students at Kansas public schools and state universities to use restrooms that match their gender at birth.
Protesters waved signs that read “Flush the bathroom bill” and “No hate in my state.”
Lafever said he has identified as male since he was 14. Transgender youths already must deal with bullying, he said, and the bill would only increase harassment.
Read more here: www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article74718912.html
“We go to the restroom for the same reason everyone else does,” said Lafever, of Wichita. “Let us pee in peace.”
LGBT advocates held a protest Friday on the steps of the Capitol against a transgender bathroom bill introduced in the Legislature last month. It would require transgender students at Kansas public schools and state universities to use restrooms that match their gender at birth.
Protesters waved signs that read “Flush the bathroom bill” and “No hate in my state.”
Lafever said he has identified as male since he was 14. Transgender youths already must deal with bullying, he said, and the bill would only increase harassment.
Read more here: www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article74718912.html