Action: Danger: Transgender Bill Alive Again‏

Your calls and emails are needed again. Please take action. This is an attack on truth and religious freedom. Information about the bill and senate contact info is below (and also attached). Thank you for your tireless efforts in defeating this year's bad legislation. We're not done yet.

Call the committee members first; but because of the short time left, please contact all the senators. You can send blind copies of emails saying VOTE NO to HB 235

Today, the transgender bill was moved out of the Rules committee and into the Judicial Proceedings committee, due to the unrelenting Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender lobbying of Senate President Mike Miller. According to the newspaper article in the pro-gay Washington Blade (see below), the bill will be heard by the Judicial Proceedings committee on Thursday and passed by Saturday. Because the bill originated in the House, without a corresponding Senate bill, there is no public hearing. Only the bill's sponsors will speak at the senate committee hearing. However, we can submit testimony to the senators, which will be put in their folders. Supporters of the bill think they have the votes to pass it. And we can and must call.

The LGBT community bombarded the senators all last week; we need to do that now. The bill is labeled "anti-discrimination". That is not the true thrust of the bill. The bill denies the basic fact that there are only two genders, male and female. The bill would use the power of the state to mandate public acceptance of an identity disorder, to teach it as normal to our children, and to prosecute those who disagree.

What Bill #235 does

The Maryland bill uses the force of law to impose cross-dressing, transgenderism, and a range of related behaviors and affectations into society against the will of citizens with traditional values or religious beliefs.

· Most importantly, this bill completely ignores the fact that the medical community considers "gender identity disorder" a mental illness. It ignores the fact that attempting to change one's sex is biologically impossible. Every single human cell contains chromosomes which identify whether we are male or female. That cannot be changed. And it ignores widespread medical observations that using mutilation, surgery, hormone treatments, etc., to try to change one's sex generally leads to worse psychological problems for the individual, including suicide attempts. ( Johns Hopkins Hospital stopped performing "transgender" operations several years ago for those reasons.)

· It requires all Maryland employers including government agencies to hire, promote, and include cross-dressers in every part of the workplace without discrimination. Business owners will be helpless - under threat of lawsuit or punishment - not to have men in dresses waiting on customers, etc.

· It also extends to public schools and even day-care centers, which will legally be unable to turn away cross-dressers and "transgenders" from teaching or working with children. (A bill is moving forward in the California Legislature today that would require all public schools - and all textbooks - to actively portray homosexuality and transgenderism / cross-dressing in a positive light.)

· It will require transgenderism, cross-dressing, and related behaviors to be considered legally normal. Thus, activists can compel schools to have transgender assemblies and similar activities including library books promoting transgenderism. This will also lead to transgender diversity training in businesses.

· All real estate transactions are covered -- people have no choice when renting or selling units or homes.

· Since transgender employees may not be discriminated against in the workplace, they cannot be restricted to using male or female restrooms in stores, restaurants, bars, schools, day care facilities, or other places of employment.

· Employers may not require a genetic test to determine the actual sex of an employee or applicant.

· The bill defines "gender identity" as "a gender-related identity or appearance of an individual regardless of the individual's assigned sex at birth." This opens the door to a wide range of behaviors and interpretations by activists. This definition also clearly denies biological reality.

It is essentially a state-sponsored war against traditional religious belief.

Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee 2011

Please call the following members of the Judicial Proceedings committee & urge them to vote against House Bill 235

Brian E. Frosh, Chair (410) 841-3124 **important**
Lisa A. Gladden, Vice-Chair (410) 841-3697 **important**
Robert A. Zirkin (410) 841-3131 ...
James Brochin (410) 841-3648
Norman R. Stone, Jr.(410) 841-3587
Jennie M. Forehand (410) 841-3134
Victor R. Ramirez (410) 841-3745
Jamie B.Raskin (410) 841-3634
Christopher B. Shank (R) (410) 841-3903
Joseph M. Getty (R) (410) 841-3683
Nancy Jacobs (R) (410) 841-3158

ALL THE SENATORS: Send emails as blind copies (BCC)

john.astle@senate.state.md.us, joanne.benson@senate.state.md.us, jim.brochin@senate.state.md.us,

joan.carter.conway@senate.state.md.us, ulysses.currie@senate.state.md.us, james.degrange@senate.state.md.us,

roy.dyson@senate.state.md.us, bill.ferguson@senate.state.md.us, jennie.forehand@senate.state.md.us,

brian.frosh@senate.state.md.us, rob.garagiola@senate.state.md.us, lisa.gladden@senate.state.md.us,

verna.jones@senate.state.md.us, edward.kasemeyer@senate.state.md.us, delores.kelley@senate.state.md.us,

nancy.king@senate.state.md.us, katherine.klausmeier@senate.state.md.us, richard.madaleno@senate.state.md.us,

roger.manno@senate.state.md.us, james.mathias@senate.state.md.us, nathaniel.mcfadden@senate.state.md.us,

thomas.mclain.middleton@senate.state.md.us, thomas.v.mike.miller@senate.state.md.us,

karen.montgomery@senate.state.md.us, anthony.muse@senate.state.md.us, douglas.peters@senate.state.md.us,

paul.pinsky@senate.state.md.us, catherine.pugh@senate.state.md.us, victor.ramirez@senate.state.md.us,

jamie.raskin@senate.state.md.us, james.robey@senate.state.md.us, jim.rosapepe@senate.state.md.us,