Maryland Community Newspapers Online
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Maryland Community Newspapers Online
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Group has access to more funding than story impliedThe article, ‘‘Group raising cash to fight transgender rights opposition,” Feb. 27 Council News) failed to point out that Equality Maryland has an annual budget of almost $1 million, has a paid staff and offices, and has a lobbying firm on contract. It is hardly the beset upon organization the article implies. Plus it gets funding from the Human Rights Campaign, the Gill Foundation, Proteus Fund, Brother Help Thyself, and Unitarian Universalist Funding Program. Citizens for a Responsible Government has none of the above. It definitely could use donations to help propel it to the next step, which is to reach the people of Montgomery County and educate them, not scare them, as the article implied, about a very bad bill. The bill has no exemption for restrooms in public accommodations, no matter what County Council President Mike Knapp says. His assertion that the operators of these areas will be allowed to maintain their sex-segregated status is laughable. It is the Human Rights Commission, not the council that will make that decision and the commission has already stated its view that these areas should be open to transgenders. Alberta Bertuzzi, Rockville
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