Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, Proposition 1, 2018
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Location | Anchorage, Alaska, United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||
Date | April 3, 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: "Election Summary Report 2018 Regular Municipal Election" (PDF), Municipality of Anchorage, November 3, 2018 |
Proposition 1 was an Anchorage, Alaska anti-transgender direct initiative bathroom bill. A public vote on the proposition was held on April 3, 2018. It would have made it legal for "any employer, public accommodation, or other person to establish and enforce sex-specific standards or policies concerning access to intimate facilities such as locker rooms, showers, changing rooms, and restrooms." The measure defined the term 'sex' as "an individual's immutable biological condition of being male or female, as objectively determined by anatomy and genetics at the time of birth."[1][1]
The proposition was the result of a petition campaign headed by Alaska Family Action, a Christian public policy organization. The group organized a petition titled "Regulating Access to Facilities Such as Locker Rooms and Bathrooms on the Basis of Sex at Birth, Rather Than Gender Identity."[2] The Anchorage Municipal Clerk's Office certified over 6,200 valid signatures on the petition and authorized the referendum in July 2017.[2] Local opponents of the bill were led by Fair Anchorage, a coalition of organizations.[3]
Anchorage voters rejected Proposition 1 by a vote of 52.64% to 47.36%.[4] The failed bill is one of several 2018 local and state ballot initiatives that would limit the rights of LGBT individuals in parts of the United States.[5]
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References
- 1 2 2017-2
- 1 2 Polk, Leroy (July 27, 2017). "It's official, gender-related bathroom use proposition up for vote next year". KTUU.
- ↑ Hughes, Zachariah (July 27, 2017). "Controversial Anchorage bathroom bill will go on April ballot". Alaska Public Media. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
- ↑ "Election Summary Report 2018 Regular Municipal Election Official Results", Municipality of Anchorage, November 3, 2018
- ↑ "Slew of state and local bills are targeting LGBTQ people". NBC News. Retrieved 2018-03-05.