Maryland Nondiscrimination Bill Marks Potentially Life-Saving Advance
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April 7, 2011 6:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2011/04/maryland_nondiscrimination_bill_marks_potentially.phpEditors' note: Mara Keisling is the executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality. Lisa Mottet is the Transgender Civil Rights Project Director at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
An important thing we have learned from "Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey," that our organizations released in February, is the high human cost of discrimination. It is no exaggeration to say that discrimination is literally killing transgender people. In addition to the shocking rates of discrimination reported, there were unconscionable amounts of violence perpetrated against transgender people. For the many who have lost a job or become homeless, rates of HIV infection, drug and alcohol abuse, and, ultimately, suicide attempts, skyrocketed.
