Press Release from TransMaryland Concerning HB235
Press release from TransMaryland: TransMaryland Issues Statement of HB235’s Demise Maryland House Bill Ultimately Failed on Several Levels Annapolis — April 12, 2011 — Today is not a…
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Do Not Blame Trans People For The Fact That, At Midnight, Maryland Will Have No Statewide Trans Protections
The reason that the Maryland legal status quo of today is trans-free is not the fault of anyone who opposed HB235. The Maryland legal status quo of today was created…
Washington Post Gets in the Act of Being Scrivener for ‘Equality’ Maryland’s Trans-Othering Narrative of Deception
According to an unsigned WaPo editorial, Maryland: passed a law banning discrimination against gay people a decade ago, but transgender individuals were dropped from the legislation. Since then, attempts…
Sadly Not an April Fool’s Joke
Over at PHB, Monica Roberts commented: When multiple civil rights attorneys tell me it won’t do what EQ MD claims it will, the bill needs to die. Naturally,…
Translation: Gay Marriage Greed Killed Trans Rights (Even a Diseased Version Thereof)
From the Baltimore Sun: After the House of Delegates this weekend voted overwhelmingly to prohibit employer and housing discrimination for the transgendered, the bill crossed over to the…
Demanding That We Forget is Transphobia
A comment by laughriotgirl on one of the threads at PHB wherein refusing to bend over and take gay transphobia is branded as homophobia: What bothers me Is…
Exactly Ten Years Ago
History that some who claim to be our allies expect us to forget: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, March 27, 2001 HRC CONGRATULATES MARYLAND SENATE FOR VOTING TO END…
The Continuing Con Artistry of Morgan Meneses-Pinochet and Free State (Still, Always and Forever) Just Us
First, a word from Kelli Busey (one which, (1) I’ve made one slight grammatical correction to, and (2) even without correction in all likelihood, will be disappeared from Pam’s House…
If its an Effort to Undermine Trans Progress, You Can Bet There’s a Gay Marylander Behind it
And so, apparently HB 235, the Maryland trans bill that no trans people who actually need the practical protections of civil rights law actually want, has been ramrodded…