Transgender rights laws spread, not always calmly

[Shana A]

Transgender rights laws spread, not always calmly

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20080612/transgender-rights/

DAVID CRARY | June 12, 2008 02:18 PM EST | AP

NEW YORK — As more state and local governments extend anti-bias protections to transgender people, fierce opposition is surfacing. In Colorado, conservatives contend a new state law will enable sexual predators to frequent women's bathrooms; in Maryland a "Not My Shower" campaign seeks to overturn a comparable county law.

Though frustrated by the resistance, and insistent that the alarms are unfounded, transgender-rights activists are heartened by an overall trend toward greater protection under the law. In the past 15 years, 13 states and more than 90 cities and counties _ home to roughly 40 percent of the U.S. population _ have passed measures banning various types of discrimination against transgender people.

[LynnER]

Those fighting the measures fear us... and the further ahead we get, the more they fear, and the more they fear the more they fight....

Maybe they would stop fearing if they took time to learn and understand.... but yeah, probably wont happen... they know there loosing and will do everything in there power to turn the tides back around...

KNOWLEDGE DEFEATS IGNORANCE!!!