A coalition of citizens and businesses in Gainesville, Fla., has gathered enough signatures to let voters decide on a gender-identity ordinance that the city commission passed early this year.
Citizens for Good Public Policy collected 8,800 signatures to place an amendment on the March ballot that essentially would repeal the Gender Identity Ordinance.
The ordinance provides special rights based on gender identity, defined as “an inner sense of being a specific gender … with or without regard to the individual’s sex at birth.” In other words, a male with an “inner sense of being” female can enter most public female restrooms with full legal protection.
“The concept of ‘gender identity’ was fashioned by radical homosexual groups and advocates to protect the sexual behavior of a few people,” Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel of the Thomas More Law Center, said in a statement. Thompson's group acts as legal counsel for the coalition.
“These types of ordinances end up being used to intimidate and prosecute Christians and anyone else who raises objections to this behavior.”
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Read about a similar law that took effect in Colorado this year.
