Transgender rights could face backlash from ‘Not in My Shower ’ campaign

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Transgender rights could face backlash from 'Not in My Shower ' campaign

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/promos/wirepicks/story/439953.html
AMANDA ERICKSON
8/10/2008

WASHINGTON – Maryanne Arnow has learned not to cringe at the stares and whispers that follow her whenever she leaves her house. Arnow, 42 and a resident of Montgomery County in Maryland, was born male. But on her birthday five years ago, she said, she realized she didn't fit in her own skin, and she began transitioning that day. Now she wears makeup and dresses, paints her toenails and worries about how her long hair looks.