Here We Go Again

The conservatives are at it again, trying to get an anti-trans bill on the ballot, this time in Washington State.

Group Launches Website to Put Anti-Trans Discrimination to a Statewide Vote
The Stranger
By Sydney Brownstone
February 17, 2016

"Just Want Privacy," a campaign dedicated to repealing the state Human Rights Commission's rule allowing transgender people to use the sex-segregated bathroom that aligns with their gender identity, is preparing to put anti-trans discrimination to a vote.

The campaign's website, which is registered to the director of the anti-LGBTQ group Family Policy Institute of Washington, claims that Just Want Privacy will file a ballot initiative after raising $100,000 and collecting 1,000 volunteer signups.

In a later post on the website they say,

The Just Want Privacy initiative itself is registered to Joseph Backholm, the director of FPIW. The same day that South Dakota's Governor Dennis Daugaard vetoed a bill that would have forced transgender kids—students—to use bathrooms inconsistent with their gender identities, Backholm tweeted that he was "super disappointed" in Daugaard's decision
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Just Want Privacy has until July 8 to obtain the 246,372 signatures it needs for a ballot initiative reversing the state Human Rights Commission's ruling that protects transgender people in bathrooms. Acquiring all those signatures is not an easy task at this late stage. But even if Just Want Privacy doesn't make it onto the November ballot, the campaign itself has the ability to put trans people in danger.

Will this initiative flop like the one in California? Down in California they couldn’t get enough signatures to get their initiative on the ballot, let’s hope the same thing happens in Washington.