Baker booed off stage by transgender activists
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With the issue of transgender rights burning white hot in the wake of a controversial new law in North Carolina, Gov. Charlie Baker's speech at a gay and transgender business event Wednesday night was met with boos from advocates who feel Baker is slowing the progress of a transgender non-discrimination bill on Beacon Hill.
The keynote speaker at Boston Spirit Magazine's LGBT Executive Networking Night, Baker was initially received warmly by the audience and spoke for about 20 minutes about the MBTA and the state's new opioid abuse prevention law, according to WBZ Radio.
A video of a portion of Baker's remarks posted to YouTube by an attendee shows a number of protesters standing directly in front of Baker at the Boston Marriott Copley Place holding signs that said, "public places = our spaces."
When Baker did not pledge to sign the bill that would establish public accommodation access rights for transgender people in Massachusetts, many in the crowd began to heckle the governor.
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