No special legislative session for bathroom discrimination!

On the evening of May 17, The Tennessean and The Commercial Appeal reported that legislators are considering a special legislative session to take up a new effort to pass a statewide anti-transgender bathroom discrimination law. Sign YOUR name to the statement below and we'll deliver your signatures to legislative leaders:

Dear Speaker Ramsey and Speaker Harwell:

We oppose a special legislative session to consider an anti-transgender bathroom discrimination law. It is never justified to spend the state's time and money to advance discrimination. Thank you for considering our views.

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Marjorie Pomeroy-Wallace signed 2016-05-18 15:39:50 -0500
Greg Bullard posted about this on Facebook 2016-05-18 15:37:20 -0500
I oppose a special legislative session for discrimination. Will you join me?
Greg Bullard signed 2016-05-18 15:36:51 -0500
Jeremy Dykes signed 2016-05-18 15:36:33 -0500

Please learn from NC & MS’s poor examples: legislative discrimination is bad for Tennessee
Gordon Gibson signed 2016-05-18 15:36:12 -0500
Claudia Nygaard signed 2016-05-18 15:34:49 -0500
Bill Kornrich signed 2016-05-18 15:33:55 -0500
Sherrie Carroll signed via Carter Witt 2016-05-18 15:33:27 -0500
James Hunsberger signed via Brent E. Meredith :: @🏠 2016-05-18 15:29:18 -0500

Waste of our governments time and resources, and my tax dollars.
Laura Zonarich signed 2016-05-18 15:25:25 -0500
Hannah May signed 2016-05-18 15:24:42 -0500
Kim Troup signed 2016-05-18 15:24:28 -0500
Alan Green signed 2016-05-18 15:23:56 -0500

Please put a stop to these very costly and entirely fabricated special interest attacks against our most vulnerable citizens. We don’t need ridiculous solutions for imaginary problems that do not exist, and we all deserve far better representation from our state legislators than this.
Morgan Robertson signed 2016-05-18 15:17:12 -0500
Elaine Roth-Nichols signed 2016-05-18 15:15:56 -0500

Aren’t there more important matters for our legislators to be working on? This legislation subjects people who are already being bullied to further undue scrutiny and hardship. How would you feel if Your Child was told, Oh, you can’t use that restroom… We thought that sort of discrimination was dead in the South… Please, do not follow the destructive path of North Carolina. Our Honorable Governor said he wanted the image of Tennessee to be “welcoming.”

Our state is on the verge of becoming the new Silicon Valley. (Lots of tech industries are eyeing us at this very moment.) These companies employ hundreds of LGBT people and would certainly locate elsewhere if such laws were passed. Many jobs (not to mention Federal Funds) would go out the window! Please, have the guts to stand up against these right wing extremists who are pushing their hate-filled agendas. They don’t care about our state’s economic well being, only their personal warped ideas.

How about let’s all get along and be the Volunteer State, the state where neighbor supported neighbor through the 2010 Flood regardless of race, creed, national origin or Gender Identity. It didn’t matter then, and it shouldn’t matter now. We are All in this together. People of differing gender identities just want to be able to use the facilities, wash their hands and leave, just like the rest of us. It’s that youth pastor or ball coach you’d better be watching out for around your children. The statistics speak for themselves. Thank you.
Caroline Stophel signed 2016-05-18 15:15:45 -0500
Derek Gibson signed 2016-05-18 15:14:17 -0500
Cynthia Andrews-Looper signed via Cynthia Andrews-Looper 2016-05-18 15:10:34 -0500
Paul Henderson signed via Cynthia Andrews-Looper 2016-05-18 15:03:39 -0500
Greg Knepper signed via Roger Myers 2016-05-18 15:03:35 -0500
Tina White signed 2016-05-18 15:02:44 -0500
Ethan Bryant signed 2016-05-18 15:00:41 -0500

Legislating discrimination is both harmful and, in the fullness of time, a blight on our State we would have to live with historically. Let’s not be a part of this.
Cynthia Andrews-Looper posted about this on Facebook 2016-05-18 14:59:23 -0500
I oppose a special legislative session for discrimination. Will you join me?
@igniteursoulnow tweeted link to this page. 2016-05-18 14:59:21 -0500
I oppose a special legislative session for discrimination. Will you join me? http://tnep.nationbuilder.com/no_special_legislative_session_for_bathroom_discrimination?recruiter_id=26468
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Cynthia Andrews-Looper signed 2016-05-18 14:59:02 -0500
Jonathan Liff signed 2016-05-18 14:57:29 -0500
Cody Frasure signed 2016-05-18 14:56:09 -0500

You have much more meaningful and important things to fix in Tennessee that enhance, rather than restrict, citizens’ rights. Forcryingoutloud
Patricia Caron signed 2016-05-18 14:53:31 -0500
Tricia Price signed 2016-05-18 14:52:27 -0500

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Leticia Flores signed 2016-05-18 14:49:02 -0500