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Dan Dana Beyer

Transgender Candidate to Challenge Gay Senator in Maryland

A transgender candidate has announced she will run against an openly gay state senator in Montgomery County in the Democratic primary.

Dana Beyer, who is the executive director of Gender Rights Maryland, made the announcement Thursday.

Beyer says Maryland residents have waited too long for economic fairness and equal opportunity.

Richare Madaleno

Do transgender feelings of victimization trump homosexual feelings of victimization?  Damn, the rules are complicated.

Beyer is running against Sen. Richard Madaleno, who has been in the state Senate since 2007. He served in the House of Delegates from 2003 to 2007. Madaleno has been an advocate for gay and transgender rights in Maryland. He is sponsoring a bill this session to ban discrimination against transgender residents.

Beyer ran unsuccessfully for delegate in 2006 and 2010.

So, given that gays constitute at best a few percent of the populace, and transgenders infinitesimally less, what are the chances that, at random, a gay man would find himself with a transgendered, uh, whatever; I don't understand the cis/trans jargon?  

Anyway, she/he has a stronger chin and bigger Adam's apple than he does.  That matters.

Thanks to William Teach at Pirate's Cove for naming me this his "blog of the Day" for this post, in his "if all you see.." post this morning.