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(The Center Square) — Backers of a Maine referendum to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls' and women's sports are criticizing the wording of the proposed ballot question by Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, accusing the Democrat of trying to "mislead" voters.  

Gov. Kelly Ayotte vetoed Senate Bill 268 Friday, a bill to allow transgender people to be excluded from restrooms, locker rooms, jails, and other spaces that don’t match their sex at birth. “I vetoed a nearly identical bill to this one last year,” Ayotte, a Republican, said in a statement announcing the veto. “I made […]

Gov. Kelly Ayotte rejected accusations Wednesday that she is replacing Cassandra Sanchez as the state’s child advocate because Sanchez publicly opposed a series of GOP bills targeting LGBTQ+ children in New Hampshire. Sanchez, speaking to the Bulletin Tuesday, said she believes the reason Ayotte did not extend her term as the head of the New […]

Kim Lawrence moved to New Hampshire not for its mountains but for its marriage policies.  In 2011, Lawrence had been living with her now-wife in a Western state that did not allow LGBTQ+ people to marry. The Granite State was one of the first states to break that trend and pass marriage equality legislation into […]