ConcordMonitor.com – By Lauren R. Dorgan – Monitor Staff
A House panel split yesterday on whether to recommend a bill that supporters said would prevent discrimination against transgender people but that opponents, who dubbed the measure the “bathroom bill,” said would tear down proper barriers between the sexes.
The House Judiciary Committee voted 10-10 on whether to support the bill. That deadlock means that the committee will offer no recommendation to the whole House on whether it should become law or not. The House is expected to take up the bill next week.