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MD police official: Transgender rights bill did not lead to rapes, assaults in public restrooms
By Brody Levesque | Filed: Friday, January 20, 2012
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WUSA-TV Thomas Manger
TOWSON, Md. — Montgomery County police chief Thomas Manger says that allegations that rapes and sexual assaults occurred in public restrooms following passage of a transgender accommodation law are "untrue."
The assertion comes in response to opposition to a transgender rights bill introduced Tuesday in Baltimore County, Md., by freshman Democratic councilman Tom Quirk — his bill would protect transgender people and allow use of restrooms according to their gender identity.