Martin O’Malley Reacts to Seeing Caitlyn Jenner’s Vanity Fair Cover For the First Time

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____Recently announced presidential contender Martin O’Malley admitted Thursday morning that he hadn’t seen the bombshell Vanity Fair cover featuring Caitlyn Jenner.

“No, I have not seen the cover,” O’Malley told IJReview in the cafe car of a New York bound Amtrak. “What’s it look like?”

Campaign manager Bill Hyers dutifully pulled out a smart device and introduced his candidate to Caitlyn. O’Malley reacted with a “Wow.”

A beat later, O’Malley told IJReview he was the first presidential candidate to ever use the word ‘transgender’ in his announcement speech...

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Martin O'Malley and the 'Fairness for All Marylanders Act'

With the stroke of a pen, Maryland became the 18th state to provide protections for transgender individuals statewide.

Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley signed into law the Fairness for All Marylanders Act, extending housing, public accommodations, and employment protections to transgender citizens and visitors of the state.

"We are closer today to creating an open, respectful, inclusive world that we want for all of our children," O'Malley said prior to signing the bill. "This bill gives us another step closer to that vision and to that reality."
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“We are closer today to creating an open, respectful, inclusive world that we want for all of our children,” said O’Malley before signing Senate Bill 212 — the Fairness for All Marylanders Act of 2014 — into law. “This bill gives us another step closer to that vision and to that reality.”

O’Malley signing SB 212 into law capped off an eight-year effort to add gender identity and expression to Maryland’s anti-discrimination act. The measure is also the latest in a series of progressive bills that include the extension of marriage rights to same-sex couples, raising the state’s minimum wage and decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana that the governor has signed during his two terms in office.

“It shows how much this governor cares about the LGBT community, how much he cares in general about making sure every person has an opportunity to succeed, to live their lives as who they are, to love who they choose and still have a chance to make a living, to have a house, to enjoy life in Maryland,” the Montgomery County Democrat told the Blade. “It’s a substantial record of achievement in a state where people said it could never be done.”

Maryland joins 17 other states, D.C. and Puerto Rico that have added gender identity and expression to their anti-discrimination laws once the law takes effect on Oct. 1. The state’s hate crimes statute also include trans-specific protections.

read: http://www.washingtonblade.com/2014/05/15/breaking-omalley-signs-maryland-transgender/
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“It’s long overdue,” he told the Washington Blade on Wednesday during a telephone interview from Annapolis. “Discrimination against people is wrong. This is a good bill and it’s about time we prohibit discrimination against transgendered individuals in Maryland.”

O’Malley noted to the Blade he signed the state’s first trans rights ordinance in 2002 when he was mayor of Baltimore. The governor subsequently testified in support of statewide proposals that had gone before Annapolis lawmakers.

“We did not experience any problems with the implementation of the bill in Baltimore,” said O’Malley in response to a question about why it took more than a decade for legislators to approve a statewide trans rights measure. “Perhaps this bill took longer given the saliency of the marriage equality fight and how many tries it took us to get that done.”

“When you have the opportunity to serve as an elected executive, you work hard everyday in the hopes that by the time your time is over you can make your state a better place, a stronger place, a more open and inclusive place that you can accomplish meaningful things that bring people together rather than to drive them apart,” O’Malley told the Blade. “That’s what we’ve been able to do in the eight years of this O’Malley-Brown administration.”

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Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley signs transgender rights bill into law. (Washington Blade photo by Michael Key)

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1. K&R. Nt.

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[Agschmid]

3. Kick.

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4. We have some great people running for the nomination this time around.

It makes me proud to be a Democrat!

Can you imagine what it must be like on the Republican side of the fence about now with the choices they're being offered?

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5. My reaction wasn't "Wow!"....

I was happy to see a dream come true.

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7. wonderful. So happy for the state and for O'Malley...