CNN: Voters in Anchorage, Alaska, narrowly rejected a proposal to restrict bathroom access for transgender people, the first time such a measure was decided at the ballot box.
So-called "bathroom bills" were up for consideration in at least six state legislatures in 2018, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. Similar to North Carolina's HB 2, their fate rests with lawmakers.
But Anchorage's Proposition 1 was the first of its kind to be decided by voters in a fight that attracted more attention from outside the state than the city's mayoral race.
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