Maryland trans bill set to die in committee

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Maryland trans bill set to die in committee


By Lou Chibbaro Jr. on March 21, 2012

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/03/21/maryland-trans-bill-set-to-die-in-committee/


Dana Beyer, executive director of Gender Rights Maryland, blamed Senate President Thomas V. Miller (D-Prince George's and Calvert Counties) for the trans bill's demise. (Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key)

A bill in the Maryland Legislature aimed at banning discrimination against transgender people in the areas of employment, housing and public accommodations is expected to die in committee on Monday, ending chances for passing it for the sixth year in a row.

The Gender Identity Non-Discrimination Act, SB 212, is stalled in the legislature's Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee, with no indication that Senate leaders plan to bring it up for a vote by March 26. That date has been long established as the deadline for one of the legislature's two bodies to approve all bills in time for consideration by the other body.

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In the most Democrat state in the union.