Group Seeks to Overturn Transgender Law

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0208/497473.html
02/20/2008

Opponents of a law that protects transgender people from discrimination in Montgomery County say they have enough signatures for a referendum that seeks to overturn the measure.

Transgender law at risk
Petition may send Montgomery County measure to referendum

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.transgender21feb21,0,4081884.story

By Rona Marech | Sun reporter
    February 21, 2008

A Montgomery County measure intended to protect transgender people appears headed to a voter referendum, setting up a potentially divisive debate over how far anti-discrimination laws should extend.

The recently passed law protects transgender people from discrimination in housing, employment, public accommodations, and taxi and cable service, and was supposed to go into effect yesterday. But it is on hold after opponents gathered 32,000 signatures in a bid to put it on the ballot this fall.