Examiner.com – by Courtney Mabeus, The Examiner
Washington – Reports that a man dressed as a woman entered a locker room at a Gaithersburg gym Monday have given new ammunition to a conservative group’s efforts to overturn a bill that extends anti-discrimination rights to transgendered people.
But others, including bill sponsor and Councilwoman Duchy Trachtenberg, have decried the unwelcome visit as little more than a public-relations stunt.
A woman who was in a locker room at Rio Sport and Health in Gaithersburg said a man dressed in heavy female makeup and a blue skirt entered the women’s locker room, frightening patrons who were in various states of undress. The incident was publicized by the group, Citizens for a Responsible Government, which protested Trachtenberg’s bill.