De-evolution
T-Notes
by Robbi Cohn | June 25, 2011
http://goqnotes.com/11465/de-evolution/Over the past two years, many state and local jurisdictions have enacted laws making discrimination against trans individuals illegal. That's the good news. The bad news is that those who would prefer to keep discrimination alive and kicking (not hard to figure out who these people are) have a new tactic; well, not really new, but one they've taken to exploiting as fully as possible. It's the kind of effort one might describe as extreme, yet as many on the religious right have become desperate as they continue to lose the battle over hearts and minds. And we all know desperation foreshadows crazy tactics.
The idea they are utilizing is to walk back legislation. If a city or county passes anti-discrimination laws, then the state can countermand those laws by passing a bill which somehow supersedes the lesser jurisdiction's ruling. Or, state's courts can find the legislation unconstitutional.
