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The Next Frontier in LGBT Rights: Trans Rights

Click on over to Page 29 of b, a publication of the Baltimore Sun, on how the next frontier for LGBT rights in Maryland (after establishing same-sex marriage) is the fight for trans rights. b reports: "Maryland, like 34 other states, lacks laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity--laws that would protect transgender people ... and others who transgress traditional notions of male and female."

One positive development: the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled that transgender people were protected from job discrimination by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, b also reports.