Anchorage voters set to be 1st in US to reject bathroom bill
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Voters in Alaska's largest city are on track to becoming the first in the U.S. to defeat a so-called bathroom bill referendum that asked them to require people to use public bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender at birth.
The initiative asked Anchorage's voters to repeal part of an ordinance passed in 2015 that prevented discrimination based on sexual orientation which said people could use public bathrooms and locker rooms "consistent with their gender identity." The proposition sought to mandate that people could only use the municipal bathrooms and locker rooms that corresponded to their gender at birth.