Bid to overturn Maryland transgender rights bill fails [View all]
A conservative group trying to force a referendum on a transgender rights law scheduled to take effect this fall did not get the required signatures needed to bring the issue to a vote.
The group MDPetitions.com was attempting to get 18,500 signatures by midnight Saturday to get the issue on the November ballot, but said on its website it was about 1,000 votes shy.
"It is difficult to come this close and then fall short, and yet we know that it was only through this effort that people became aware of the effects of this bill," Washington County Del. Neil Parrott, a Republican who chairs MDPetitions.com, said in a letter on the group's website.
Parrott did not return several phone calls.
Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-transgender-defeat-20140601,0,3368870.story
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