Transgender rights referendum reaches next step

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Source: AP

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Opponents of a new California law that spells out the rights of transgender students in public schools have cleared the next hurdle in their effort to repeal the law at the ballot box, state elections officials said Wednesday.

A spot check of petitions circulated by backers of a proposed voter referendum on the law showed enough were valid to trigger further review of the signatures needed to qualify the measure for the November ballot, according to figures compiled by the secretary of state.

Projections based on random sampling indicated that the referendum's backers — a coalition of conservative groups called Privacy for All — obtained 95.6 percent of the 504,760 signatures required to force a public vote on the law passed last year by the California Legislature and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown.

That was only a few thousand more than they needed to prompt the next step in the qualification process — a full check of all 619,244 signatures submitted, the secretary of state's office said.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/transgender-rights-referendum-reaches-next-step

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"Privacy for All" = Right Wing Newspeak

[One_Life_To_Give]

1. Privacy for all?

That means they will or won't stick their face in my shorts to see if I am in the proper restroom?

[cinnabonbon]

2. I hate that the right is fighting trans*rights

they furthered their cause on lies and twisted information. But what else is new with rethugs.

[Initech]

3. They fight *EVERYONE'S* rights!

Hell you know they would just love to overturn that pesky 13th amendment because paying workers cuts into their precious profit margins. But they can't, so they go after everyone else's rights. It's truly sick and twisted, that mindset.

[marshall]

4. Taking it to the ballot box is not a good idea in CA

There's not a good history of enough of the people in California voting the right way on issues like this. Maybe if it is carefully written it will pass the muster.