WashBlade.com – Joshua Lynsen
Montgomery County officials plan to introduce a bill next week that would outlaw discrimination against transgender people.
The proposed measure would bar discrimination in the areas of employment, housing and public accommodations. If passed, Montgomery County would join Baltimore as among the few Maryland jurisdictions to have such laws.
?I expect this will be voted on by the end of October,? said Dana Beyer, who is transgender and works for Montgomery County Councilmember Duchy Trachtenberg.
Efforts to advance the local measure come after state legislators in Annapolis failed to pass a bill enacting similar safeguards statewide.