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"One of the Democrats who voted against the protections was Sen. Norman Stone, who in 1967 voted to maintain the state's ban on interracial marriage and who opposed same-sex marriage in 2012. Another was Sen. James Brochin, who was actually convinced to vote for marriage equality because of how 'appalling' opponents' testimony was. Apparently when the Family Research Council's Peter Sprigg testified that trans people are 'suffering' from a 'delusion' and require therapy instead of protections, it just wasn't appalling enough." -- Zack Ford, 2013-03-14

"It is now 14 years since transgender protections were stripped from LGBT anti-discrimination legislation by the General Assembly," Donna Cartwright of the Maryland Coalition for Trans Equality said. "It's long past time for the legislature to take meaningful action to address the severe discrimination and disadvantage that trans people face." -- from a Washington Blade article by Michael K. Lavers, also on 2013-03-14