Why isn't NH the same color as the rest of New England ?

For gay and transgender people, these are the least welcoming states

I love maps that are color coded. But I wondered why NH wasn't the same color as the rest of the New England states. I thought maybe it had something to do with its different seat belt restrictions or its LIVE FREE OR DIE motto.

So I went to Movement Advancement Project | State Profiles the Movement Advancement Project website and noted that the state lacks:

Voluntary Declaration of Paternity
LGBTQ+ - Inclusive Definitions of Spouse/Partner
LGBTQ+ - Inclusive Definitions of Children/Parents
Credit and Lending Non-Discrimination Laws
No State Curricular Standards Required to be LGBTQ+ - inclusive
No "Shield" Laws Protecting Access to Transgender Healthcare for Gender Identity
No Data Collection Laws for LGBTQ+ Adults
No Laws for Jury Service Nondiscrimination
Ability for Transgender People to Correct Name and Gender Marker on Identity Documents

I'm sure every state has SOMETHING negative on the chart. New Hampshire just seems to have more than the others.

 

I've been to NH plenty of times, and never knew any of that. Glad my stepdaughter doesn't live there anymore!

 

Nanny state laws to protect people having alternative orientations can seriously backfire. All people want is to be treated equally, so simply having laws to protect them classifies them as different.

Back in the 1970s, a guy working for us insisted on telling everyone he met that he was gay within 30 seconds of meeting them, then he wondered why they were avoiding him. I tried to explain to him that they were not avoiding him because he was gay, but avoiding him because it was the only subject he ever talked about.

 

Vermont and NH are a world apart in terms of political landscape and the environment also. Vermont has a long history of liberal environmental policy, NH not so much. You can see the impact of unregulated development in the landscape in NH. There’s a noticeable difference between say Laconia and Rutland. And education too. I worked in a Federal agency and people I knew who worked in both NH and say Minnesota,were struck by the difference in the quality of public schools. Low property taxes come at a cost. And then there’s that +&#% state liquor store in the median of. I 95 at the Mass. border.
I traveled in both states and found neat things in both NH and Vermont but personally I’d rather live in a place with a long history of progressive rather than conservative government. The difference in LGBTQ policies doesn’t come as a surprise either.

 

I noticed my state, TN, is one of the high risk states. I'm not in the least surprised, and besides my wife and overly religious family, its one reason I'm firmly in the closet as bicurious/bisexual.