From Gay Star News: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/national-organization-marriage-now-goes-after-transgender-kids230913
The National Organization for Marriage has announced it willl campaign to end California’s AB 1266 law which allows transgender children to use the bathrooms and change rooms of their preferred gender and play on the sports teams of their choice
By Andrew Potts
23 September 2013
The anti-gay National Organization for Marriage (NOM) group that put same-sex marriage on the ballot in California in 2008 is now seeking to do the same to California’s AB 1266 law which allows transgender teens access to the facilities of their choice and to play on the sports teams of their choice.
NOM are hoping to gather 504,760 voter signatures against AB 1266, which would be enough to place its repeal on the November 2014 ballot, and would suspend the law until Californians can vote on it.
NOM president Brian Brown claimed the law was part of a wider conspiracy to end traditional gender roles in the United States.
‘AB1266, the co-ed bathroom law, is a horrible attempt by activists to strip society of all gender roles and uses children as a weapon in their culture war, Brown said.
‘Opening our most vulnerable areas at school including showers, bathrooms and changing rooms to members of the opposite sex is politically-correct madness that risks the privacy and security of our children and grandchildren.’
Brown claimed that allowing transgender students to use the bathrooms was damaging to children.
‘They are forcing our school children to be exposed in showers and bathrooms to members of the opposite sex who claim a gender identity with that sex,’ Brown said.
‘This new law doesn’t prevent bullying – it is bullying. It is not about protecting kids; it damages kids.’ Brown did not acknowledge any potential danger to transgender students in forcing them to change in front of opposite gendered students.
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