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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people in the U.S. state of Maryland enjoy the same rights as non-LGBTQ people. [2] The state's anti-sodomy provisions were ruled unconstitutional in 1999 and definitively repealed by the state's legislature in 2023.
In 2024, Bailey Anne entered her first pageant and won the title of Miss Maryland USA. She became the first transgender woman, and the first Asian American woman, the first immigrant, the first military spouse, the first woman over the traditional age of 28 to win Miss Maryland USA when she was crowned in June 2024.
The Maryland Coalition for Trans Equality (MCTE) is a coalition of organizations and individuals working to advance equal rights for transgender, transsexual, and gender non-conforming people in Maryland. Their stated goal is to achieve this "through shared leadership, decision-making processes, and resources".
Maryland has had 18 killings of transgender people since 2013 – the eighth-highest total by state in that time, tied with Illinois, according to HRC. CNN’s Nia Mclean contributed to this report.
The 2024 Maryland Question 1 was a voter referendum that appeared on the ballot on November 5, 2024. It established in the Constitution of Maryland a right to reproductive freedom. The referendum was approved overwhelmingly, with more than three times as many voters voting in favor of it than against it, and only losing in Garrett County .
Miss Maryland USA, an Asian American trans military wife, speaks out against hate. Sakshi Venkatraman. June 10, 2024 at 5:00 PM.
Senator Ben Cardin and Gender Rights Maryland executive director Dana Beyer at a March 2012 event in Rockville, Maryland. Dana Beyer (born February 9, 1952) is an American transgender rights advocate and the executive director of Gender Rights Maryland, a civil rights and advocacy organization serving Maryland's transgender community. [1]
First openly transgender state senator in the U.S. [105] Maggie McIntosh (born 1947) Democratic Maryland: Maryland House of Delegates (1992–2023) First LGBT state legislator in Maryland, came out in 2001 [106] Lawrence McKeon (1944-2008) Democratic Illinois: Illinois House of Representatives (1997-2005)