The Anchorage Daily News, in partnership with ProPublica, conducted an investigation into the quietly removed legal protections for LGBTQ+, one year after the Alaska State Commission for Human Rights explicitly stated it was illegal to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. The two publishers found the decision had been requested by a conservative Christian group and was announced on the Alaska attorney general’s Twitter feed, which had all of 31 followers at the time of publication.
The chair of the Alaska State Commission for Human Rights, Zackary Gottshall, is obviously not the guy to champion LGBTQ+ rights under any circumstances. According to ProPublica, “he once filed an equal opportunity employment complaint claiming he had been passed over for a job in the U.S. Army because he is a man” and “in the past year posted tweets questioning the validity of transgender identity.”
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