This map seems like a more trans-specific version of the one the ACLU is using to track anti-LGBTQ+ legislation: https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights.

NH has some protections on the books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_New_Hampshire, but not as many specific callouts like, say, neighboring Vermont.

A few state legislation bills show up every year trying to roll some of them back, or introduce groundwork for later attempts (like trying to define biological sex in a way that erases intersex people, for instance). Similar to what's happening in other states, though the bills tend to not advance.

Since Roe/Wade was overturned, trans issues seems to be the next big wedge issue everybody can rally around. Hardly anyone knows a trans person, it's very easy to "other" them, and there's an astonishing amount of misinformation out there about it. Kind of sucks, because we've plenty of other problems we could work on in NH that would improve the lives of more people.

When I worked there, Afterburner was on the 3rd floor, above the bowling center. Before they put in the bar and indoor driving range. The game got played frequently (it was rare for it to be empty of tokens). I wasn't very good at it, but I agree, fun to play!

That was my first job back in the early '90s. Good times, great memories. It was pretty amazing that they trusted some goofy sixteen-year-old to carry around several hundred dollars in cash to make change.

We had to sort all those tokens by hand to filter out the highway tokens and other random things people would try in the machines. It was a nice break in a back room, away from all the noise. I used to hear the games in my sleep.

>There's no "somewhere in between"

You should see the view from in here.

It also used to be "definitive(ly) medical" to do cupping, bleeding, and other strange things at one point, so I think that phrase doesn't necessarily equate to objective reality. I probably won't change your mind, and that's okay, but maybe "definite medical" is a little fuzzy and there's room to maneuver.

I personally have biological (genetic, endocrine, physical) markers for both male and female sexes. I'm a variation in the rich mosaic of human experience and I was born this way. I'd like them to clarify. I'd really like them to include a "why are we doing this" section in House bills.

I want to live my life in peace and have body autonomy. I want to be left alone when it comes to my genetics. I really just want to be left alone; I almost didn't comment on this post because this general cultural argument is so exhausting.

However, I'd also like to avoid being invalidated/erased by state law. I'm interested in things being crystal clear so that attempts to wage a battle over gender doesn't have negative side effects.

396 is an example of why it should be required to include a "what problem are you trying to solve" section on these bills. I'd also be interested in what they mean by "biologically male and female", particularly for intersex people who aren't at either end of the sex binary and are, in fact, somewhere in the middle - and have no problem being in the middle (intersex is not the same thing as transgender).

I wish 264 didn't mix male and female and gender all at once, which are different. Sex: male/female/inter, Gender: Man/Woman/Non-Binary/xenogenders, etc. This is relatively new distinction in cultural discourse and won't get fixed in state law anytime soon, but focusing in on only male/female erases intersex folks (there are over 3 dozen types and collectively, we show up in about 1-2% of the population). I do like that 264 mentions requiring a court order to change the birth certificate more than once, to prevent flipflopping (figuring out some of this stuff can be personally confusing).

>if it rains hard and you have trouble seeing you do not need to turn on your hazard lights unless something is wrong

If I'm on the highway, I turn on my hazards in a torrential downpour to alert other drivers of a potential road hazard: ME. I want them to know that I can't see past my car's nose, I'm driving 30 in a 65, and I can't see them, either.