ChicagoTribune.com – By Amanda Erickson – Washington Bureau
Group seeks to repeal county’s law at ballot box
Washington – Maryanne Arnow has learned not to cringe at the stares and whispers that follow her whenever she leaves her house.
Arnow, 42 and a resident of Montgomery County in Maryland, was born male. But on her birthday five years ago, she said, she realized she didn’t fit in her own skin, and she began transitioning that day. Now living as a woman, she wears make-up and dresses, paints her toenails and worries about how her long hair looks.