According to the Maryland Gazette, “at least” 18 men have been arrested through the state’s undercover sex operation this year. The operation follows the typical “To Catch A Predator” model: “The men contacted Montgomery County Police officers posing as a 16-year-old high school sophomore on Craigslist.com, negotiated how much they would pay for specific sexual services and set up meetings in the Gaithersburg area, where they were arrested upon arrival.”

All this sex sting lacked was Chris Hansen hiding in a closet—who apparently has quite a following among underage prostitution enthusiasts!

Several men asked the girl if she was working for police, according to the documents, and a few said that they did not want to end up on Dateline’s “To Catch A Predator” television series.

They didn’t end up on “To Catch a Predator.” But the Gazette has stepped in to assume Hansen’s role of disseminating all the johns’ life-ruining details to the public. No cookies and lemonade, either:

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It’s been over a month since testimony was heard on Maryland’s Bill 566, a proposition which would prohibit discrimination “based on gender identity with regard to public accommodations, housing, and employment” in the state. The Maryland legislature is slated to adjourn on Monday, and both the House and the Senate have failed to take action on the legislation.

They’re just waiting for it to die.

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Maryland Catholics move to enshrine “natural complementarity of the sexes” within impenetrable snowglobe

The Maryland Catholic Conference has come out against the Maryland Senate Bill 566, legislation that would protect against discrimination of transgender persons in the state. According to the group’s executive director, Mary Ellen Russell, the church generally would totally support something like this:

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Beards, boats, and all phallic imagery also to be banned from state budget.

Last week, the Maryland state legislature threatened to withdraw $424 million dollars in funding to the University of Maryland if its College Park campus proceeded with its plan to screen the satirical hard-core porn “Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge.”

University officials nixed the screening, but allowed a campus student group to show portions of the film “in an educational context”—with ACLU reps speaking on free speech issues.

Now, Republican state senator Andrew P. Harris, who led the anti-porn charge, is moving to ensure that, in the future, hard-core pirate sex will be contextualized in an educational setting that will address more than simply his own ass-hattery:

Mr. Harris said Monday he plans to insert language in the state’s capital budget that would require the university to come up with a plan that will address the health and social concerns that are attributed to pornography, in the event an adult film is ever showcased on campus again.

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Don’t you hate it when men pretending to be women slip into your shower while you’re publicly bathing your women and children? Yeah, never happened to me, either.

Maryland Citizens for Responsible Government have come up with a pithy little campaign to oppose those pushing to end discrimination against transgender citizens in the state: “Not My Shower.”

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Putting a saw in your vagina is very dangerous, even if you put a rubber dildo over that saw prior to putting the saw into your vagina. A Southern Maryland couple learned that the hard way over the weekend when a man put a saw in a dildo into a woman’s vagina, only to have the saw cut through the dildo and then, inevitably, through the woman.

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Today, testimony was to be heard by the Maryland Senate “on a measure that would prohibit discrimination against transgender people.” The proposition, Bill 566, would prohibit discrimination “based on gender identity with regard to public accommodations, housing, and employment.”

If passed, Maryland would join thirteen other states and the District of Columbia in protecting transgender citizens. The D.C. Human Rights Act was amended to add protections for “gender identity and expression” in 2006, but District institutions are still ironing out the hick-ups.