Transgendered aide turns to law she helped pass
Beyer files complaint against council Ethics Commission
by C. Benjamin Ford | Staff Writer

http://www.gazette.net/stories/11182009/montnew181856_32548.shtml

A County Councilwoman's senior policy adviser who helped draft the county's antidiscrimination law to protect transgendered people now is using the law in filing a complaint against the Montgomery County Ethics Commission.

"I helped craft the bill, and I'm the first to use it," said Dana Beyer, a transgendered woman who serves as senior aide to Councilwoman Duchy Trachtenberg (D-At large). "That's a delicious irony."