Maryland: Ruling Clears Way for November Vote on Transgender Measure

The Washington Post reports:

A Montgomery County judge cleared the way yesterday for voters to decide in November whether to keep a new anti-discrimination law that provides broad protections for transgender individuals . . .

The case has attracted national attention: Lambda Legal, a national gay rights group, is assisting Equality Maryland, and Alliance Defense Fund, a socially conservative legal fund, is helping Citizens for Responsible Government.

Amy Smith, litigation counsel with the alliance, said yesterday that “a political activist group should not be able to disenfranchise the voters of an entire county.”