Opponents of California transgender student rights law gets signatures to repeal
November 10th

Opponents of a new California law that gives transgender students certain rights said Sunday that they had collected enough signatures for an initiative that would repeal the law.

A coalition of conservative groups called Privacy for all Students submitted 620,000 signatures to get the initiative on the November 2014 ballot, said Frank Schubert, the political strategist handling the signature gathering effort.

To qualify, at least 505,000 valid signatures must be submitted. To verify the signatures, each of California's 58 counties will first check that the overall count is correct, then conduct a random sampling to make sure they are legitimate. After that, it is likely the state would order a full review.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/11/10/transgender-rights-repeal-signatures/

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Argh!!!!!!!!!!! And humanity slides further backwards.

Direct democracy is insane.

Group: Calif. transgender law repeal will qualify
Jason Dearen, November 10th

"Many people said we had no chance to collect over half a million signatures in just 90 days, but we have proven them wrong by gathering over 115,000 more signatures than the minimum needed," Gina Gleason of the group Faith and Public Policy, said in a statement. ((What does faith have to do with any of this?))

John O'Connor, executive director of Equality California, the organization that co-sponsored the transgender student law, said he was alarmed by the initiative effort.

"Protecting this law is our number one priority, and we will put everything we've got into it," O'Connor said, adding that he believes public opinion is opposed to discrimination against LGBT people.

The effort to repeal the law got a boost last month when the National Organization for Marriage, which organized the 2008 ballot initiative that outlawed gay marriage in California, joined the effort.

"It shows the degree of opposition that exists to opening the most vulnerable areas of public schools to the opposite sex," Karen England of Capitol Resources Institute, a coalition member, said in a statement.

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Group-Calif-transgender-law-repeal-will-qualify-4972698.php

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I can't stand looking at the faces of the women in the photograph

Quote from: Bardoux on November 11, 2013, 04:26:51 AM
I can't stand looking at the faces of the women in the photograph

The face of bigotry. 

Quote from: Just Gwynne! on November 11, 2013, 04:28:50 AM
The face of bigotry. 

Not necessarily. For some it might be ignorance, not bigotry. People are empathetic, but only when they understand the issues involved.

Witness how many people changed their mind about same-sex marriage when they got to know actual gay people and realized they're not trying to "push their agenda", just live a quiet life with the same legal protections as everyone else.

Given the number of signatures, the verification rate on signatures needs to be almost 82%. The last confirmed verification rate that I saw was 71%. If they continue to fall short on verified signatures, they will fail to bring it to the ballot.