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By Metro Weekly Contributor
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December 20, 2011
New Hampshire Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte has vetoed, for the third time since taking office last year, a bill seeking to bar transgender people from bathrooms and other spaces that align with their gender identity.
The "bathroom bill" seeks to carve out exceptions to New Hampshire's 2018 Law Against Discrimination, which prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The measure was signed into law by former Republican Gov. Chris Sununu.
As reported by the New Hampshire Bulletin, the bill would allow business owners to bar transgender people from restrooms or locker rooms that align with their gender identity, permit female-designated sports teams to exclude transgender women from competition, and allow jails and prisons to assign housing based on a person's sex assigned at birth.
Reid Rasner, a gay Republican running for Wyoming's lone U.S. House seat, has settled a federal defamation lawsuit against an Iowa man who falsely called him a "pedophile" on social media and is continuing separate defamation lawsuits against four Wyoming Republicans in state court.
Rasner sued Iowa resident Michael Leonard Cooley Jr. in March, alleging that Cooley repeatedly accused him on social media of being a "pedophile." According to the complaint, Cooley made "hateful false statements" intended to harm Rasner "in his Wyoming personal and professional life."
The two men did not know each other before the lawsuit, but Rasner alleged that Cooley's accusations caused him personal, professional, and political harm.
U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who lost his Republican primary earlier this year, confronted a Fox News Digital reporter by filming him and asking him to respond to the assertion that he likes "gay porn."
The confrontation began when reporter Nicholas Ballasy questioned Massie about comments made by a former staffer, Cynthia West, who claims to be the congressman's ex-girlfriend.
During an appearance on right-wing influencer Laura Loomer's podcast, Loomer Unleashed, West claimed that Massie pressured her to sign a nondisclosure agreement and bragged about an alleged sexual encounter with U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) following the 2024 death of his first wife, Rhonda Howard Massie.
