The Man Behind NOM's New War on Transgender StudentsCaitlin Dickson, Oct 3, 2013 5:45 PM EDT
Exactly one year ago, Frank Schubert was on top of the world. California's gay marriage-banning Proposition 8, which he had helped push through, was in effect. He'd successfully knocked down ballot initiatives in Maine and North Carolina to legalize gay marriage, and gearing up for similar fights in Maryland, Minnesota and Washington State...
Then, in what seemed like no time at all, all his hard work has come crashing down. All five of the states in which he'd worked to block gay marriage have now legalized it. The Supreme Court effectively killed Prop 8, and deemed the Defense of Marriage Act—a federal ban on same sex marriage—unconstitutional...
But Schubert refuses to wave the white flag—only now he's got a new, and somewhat unexpected target: transgender students. He's just signed on to lead a campaign backed by the National Organization for Marriage—the group that he's long worked with on the gay marriage fight—to repeal a new law in California that reinforces existing anti-discrimination laws by allowing transgender public school students to choose which bathroom to use and which sports teams to try out for.
