Senate Protects Granite State Women’s Spaces

CONCORD, NH – Senate Majority Leader Sharon Carson (R-Londonderry) and Senator Kevin Avard (R-Nashua) released the following joint statement on the Senate passing HB 396, permitting the classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances:

“Men and women have basic biological differences between them. We want to ensure the safety and opportunities available to biological females. This bill clarifies that it is not discriminatory to have different facilities, such as bathrooms, locker rooms, sporting events, and prisons, for males and females. This bill is not a mandate. It is simply a clarification under the State Commission on Human Rights that separate bathrooms or prisons are not discriminatory practices,” said Senate Majority Leader Sharon Carson.

“New Hampshire law does not allow discrimination against people because they are transgender. They have the same rights as every Granite Stater. However, there are no special rights for biological males to use intimate female spaces. Biological male athletes have taken opportunities from female athletes and have sexually assaulted female inmates after being transferred to a women’s prison. We cannot allow the New Hampshire Human Rights Commission to become a battleground in this culture war,” added Senator Kevin Avard.