This initiative is all about filling Minnery's wallet, raising his national profile among the bigoted right and distracting from the incompetence of the Republican party at the local, state and national levels. It has nothing to do with solving a problem Anchorage has, has ever or will ever have. Trump instituted his half baked ban on transgender people serving in the armed services to distract from the scandal and ineptitude which so thoroughly characterize his administration. Alaska Republicans hope this unnecessary, divisive bathroom nonsense will somehow cover up their total inability to solve the real problems facing our state.