Gainesville FL Voters Go To The Polls Today

UPDATE: National Center for Transgender Equality (NTCE)

Gainesville, Florida: NCTE congratulates the wonderful advocates at Equality is Gainesville's Business who organized and executed a highly professional and effective campaign to counter yet another organized anti-LGBT fear mongering effort. With 100% of the city ballots counted, the discriminatory Charter Amendment One has been soundly defeated by a vote of 58% to 42%.


Charter Amendment 1 was an effort by national rightwing organizations to repeal the city's new anti-discrimination law that would-and now will-allow gay, bi and transgender people to work and live based on their qualifications.


Equality has won. Truth has won. The LGBT-obsessed Right Wing Lie Machine has fallen way short again.


And residents of Gainesville and the amazing people at Equality is Gainesville's Business ROCK.

In Gainesville Florida today voters are voting on whether to repeal the city’s anti-discrimination laws.

Gainesville may shed gay discrimination ban
By RON WORD
Associated Press Writer

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- A charter amendment that would strip this university city's anti-discrimination protections extended to gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender residents is before voters Tuesday.

The fight began after the city commission last year revised Gainesville's anti-discrimination ordinance to protect transgender people - those who are born one sex but identify with the other. That allows the city's approximately 100 transgender residents to use the public restroom of their choosing, along with protecting them from job and housing discrimination.

Those supporting repeal say their message has remained consistent: "Keep men out of women's restrooms!"

"That's our motive, plain and simple," said Jim Gilbert, a spokesman for Citizens for Good Public Policy.

The Citizens for Good Public Policy say that is their only motive, but it is not, they are also removing protection from discrimination for sexual orientation. The law would repeal job and housing protection for lesbians, gats, bisexuals and transgender individuals.

Why is it that organizations that have “citizens” or “family” in their name are not for all citizens or all families; they are for exclusion, hate and discrimination.