MD police official: Transgender rights bill did not lead to rapes, assaults in p

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MD police official: Transgender rights bill did not lead to rapes, assaults in public restrooms


By Brody Levesque | Filed: Friday, January 20, 2012

http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/01/maryland-police-official-says-claims-of-rapes-by-transgender-persons-false/


WUSA-TV  Thomas Manger

TOWSON, Md. — Montgomery County police chief Thomas Manger says that allegations that rapes and sexual assaults occurred in public restrooms following passage of a transgender accommodation law are "untrue."

The assertion comes in response to opposition to a transgender rights bill introduced Tuesday in Baltimore County, Md., by freshman Democratic councilman Tom Quirk — his bill would protect transgender people and allow use of restrooms according to their gender identity.