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A transgender woman in the US state of Maryland is suing her local government under the anti-discrimination laws that she was involved in drawing up.

Policy advisor Dana Beyer is suing Montgomery County for $5 million using the 2007 rules prohibiting gender-identity discrimination, claiming that the county’s ethics commission broke the law when investigating her.

An investigation into Beyer’s conduct by the commission took place when Citizens for Responsible Government (CRG), a group opposing the anti-discrimination law, complained that she tried to intimidate them when they were gathering signatures outside a shop in Bethesda.

Beyer claims the commission harassed and deliberately embarrassed her by leaking details of the investigation and searching her work computer without her consent because she is transgendered. She told the Maryland Politics Watch blog “I didn’t harass or intimidate anybody. I don’t think what I did is wrong at all.”

She had already lodged a complaint to Montgomery’s human rights office, which she says was ignored, and so she is now taking the matter to court as a way of gaining the authority’s attention. “”I’m trying to make a point here, I’m not looking for money,” said Beyer.

Spokesman for Montgomery County Patrick Lacefield says the claim is baseless and hopes that the judge to dismiss the charges.

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