Getting to be a bit of a tangent, but living in Houston, I think that one was partly progressives being somewhat unprepared for how the campaign turned out. Progressives were ready for a gay-rights fight, and confident they could win it (probably rightly so). But they weren&#x27;t ready for a trans-rights fight, in part because very little of the educational groundwork for that one has been laid (not that many people have a real idea what trans rights <i>are</i>, and haven&#x27;t gotten used to how to think about them). Since LGBT nondiscrimination in general was included in the bill, conservatives decided to (probably wisely) ignore the gay-rights part entirely, and make it a single-issue campaign focused around the slogan &quot;no men in women&#x27;s bathrooms&quot;. (The ordinance didn&#x27;t actually say anything about bathrooms, but they argued it was a slippery slope.)<p>What also didn&#x27;t help is that this vote was attached to an off-year municipal election, in which the median voter age was 70.