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Article: Montgomery Wisely Keeps Anti-Discrimination Law For Transgender People Out of Public Restrooms
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- The Washington Post
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- November 11, 2007
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In oh-so-progressive Montgomery County, where it's illegal to
smoke or use trans fats in restaurants, there are, you will be
relieved to learn, some limits to government's desire to legislate
behavior. Just days before a vote on making it legal for certain men
to use women's locker rooms and restrooms, the County Council has
backed off.
Council members will still proceed Tuesday with a move to ban
discrimination against transgender people in housing, employment and
taxi service. But a provision to let people whose gender identity
conflicts with their physical equipment use the public restrooms of
their choice was withdrawn Friday.
Given the social stigma associated with cross-dressing or ...