How?

March 24, 2011 ·

Considering that, yesterday, a subcommittee vote was taken – at which amendments to the already-anti-trans HB 235 were adopted – and allegedly a vote of the full committee is on tap for today and then a floor ramrod vote tomorrow, how is it…

…that this is all the information that the Maryland Legislature’s website has to offer the people who will be othered by this latest act of transphobic gay greed in Maryland?

[Cross-posted at ENDABlog]

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