Washington Won’t Discriminate has the support of major employers like Vulcan Inc., Microsoft, and Google.

Washington Won’t Discriminate has the support of major employers like Vulcan Inc., Microsoft, and Google.

Washington Won’t Discriminate has the support of major employers like Vulcan Inc., Microsoft, and Google.

Launching a statewide fight against trans discrimination from the inside of a church is a strategic move.

That strategy carries even more meaning when the church isn’t located in Seattle, an urban enclave everyone already knows is rainbow-striped and proud of it. Instead, on April 28, more than a hundred people carrying “No on I-1515” signs packed the pews at the Renton First United Methodist Church. The message for supporters of a proposed ballot measure that would repeal protections for transgender people in bathrooms and locker rooms was clear: They are not the moral majority.

“We treat other people the way we want to be treated, even when somebody looks different, perhaps more important when someone looks different from us,” Bishop Kirby Unti, of the Northwest Washington Synod, told the crowd…

Sydney Brownstone writes about the environment, sexual assault, and general news for The Stranger. In 2017, her boss and Pulitzer winner Eli Sanders nominated her coverage of Seattle porn scammer Matt...