Ann E. Marimow reports on the Washington Post:
Montgomery County election officials have cleared the way for voters to decide whether to uphold broad protections for transgender individuals passed by the County Council in the fall. . . .
Placing a referendum on the ballot requires the signatures of 5 percent of registered voters, or about 25,000 people. The last time Montgomery voters were asked to weigh in on a council initiative was in 1994, when they upheld a funding structure for a controversial incinerator. In 1984, a court invalidated a referendum brought by a group that opposed the addition of sexual orientation to the county’s discrimination law.
Michelle Turner, a spokeswoman for Citizens for Responsible Government, said the group is bracing for a legal challenge and has lined up assistance from the Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund, a socially conservative legal group.
"They’ve got a big fight on their hands," she said.
