What is interesting is that the number of complaints of discrimination in the cities that have passed non-discrimination ordinances is very very low if not absent. This would indicate that discrimination for sexual orientation and gender identity is not a large issue in Utah. City ordinances are sufficient for those who may have a complaint.
To pass a state-wide law that lays the groundwork for LGBT activists to take advantage of would be unwise. If, in the future, ordinances need to be modified, this can be done relatively easy in response to local citizens. However, if a state law is enacted, local control is lost.
Judging from what is happening in other states, this is an area that must be carefully monitored and citizens should not allow state laws to give LGBT activists the opportunity to force businesses and schools to open bathrooms to those who have "gender identity" issues.
... initially an extremely small number of discrimination complaints have actually been made. Salt Lake City has had three complaints, not all of which were from people within city boundaries, and no complaints were made in 2013. Salt Lake County has had zero complaints from the unincorporated areas of the county, and zero have been made to the Neighborhood Development and Community Improvement department in Logan which deals with the ordinances. Likewise, Grand County, Ogden, and West Valley City have not had a single discrimination complaint. In some municipal representatives have stated that though they have received one or two complaints, they have not been within their jurisdictions, so there was nothing they could do to help.
... A study from the Williams Institute showed that per capita, sexual orientation discrimination complaints were received at similar rates as sex and race discrimination rates (5 per 10,000). The highest LGB rates of complaint came from seemingly liberal areas, with a rate of 8.8 per 10,000 in DC, 7.3 per 10,000 in California, and 6.4 per 10,000 in Connecticut. Gender identity ordinances were too new to study comprehensively, though preliminary reports have shown that these rates may be considerably higher.
http://utahpoliticalcapitol.com/2014/01/14/a-look-at-utahs-nondiscrimination-ordinances/#
