A new hero: New Hampshire Representative Jonah Wheeler

And I need your help

March 21, 2025

Yesterday, Lauren Leggieri (with the group LGB Courage Coalition) posted a speech given by state Representative Jonah Wheeler from New Hampshire on Facebook. It’s an astonishing speech, and well worth six minutes of your time.

Representative Wheeler is a Democrat who voted yes on New Hampshire HB 148, which permits classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain circumstances.

The bill would amend the state anti-discrimination law to state as follows:

The general court also finds that, notwithstanding New Hampshire’s fundamental commitment to treat all persons without discrimination and with equal dignity and respect, which commitment the legislature fully accepts and strongly endorses, there are certain limited circumstances in which classification of persons based on biological sex is proper because such classification serves the compelling state interests of protecting the privacy rights and physical safety of such persons and others. The legislature finds that permitting classification of persons based upon biological sex serves this compelling state interest in the 3 circumstances described in RSA 354-A:25-a.

(“The general court” is the name of the New Hampshire state legislature.)

It passed in the state House yesterday. According to the New Hampshire Bulletin:

House Bill 148, which passed the chamber 201-166, adds exceptions to the anti-discrimination law that permit businesses, organizations, and governmental entities to classify certain services by a person’s biological sex. The bill allows those entities to separate people by biological sex in bathrooms, locker rooms, athletic or sporting competitions, prisons, jails, juvenile detention centers, and mental health hospitals and treatment centers.

If you’d like, you can call Representative Wheeler’s office to thank him at (603) 831-9916. I called his office this morning and it went to voicemail. I’m sure he’s quite busy today. You can also email him at Jonah.Wheeler@gc.nh.gov. If you do, I recommend putting something very positive in the subject line, so whoever is reading his inbox knows it’s not going to contain hate mail. My email from this morning contained the subject line, “Thank you!”

I’m calling this a win for the women and girls of New Hampshire. Read on to learn more.

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