Anti-transgender discrimination loses in Alaska vote.

FAIR ANCHORAGE FIELD ORGANIZER LILLIAN LENNON HUGS COL, A TRANSGENDER TEEN WHO STARRED IN ONE OF THE ADS OPPOSING PROP 1, AS THE RESULTS CAME IN TUESDAY NIGHT. (CREDIT: TWITTER/FAIR ANCHORAGE)

According to preliminary tallies from the city’s first mail-in election, voters in Anchorage, Alaska appear to have defeated Proposition 1, a controversial measure which would have licensed and mandated discrimination against transgender people.

Tuesday was the last day for voters to postmark their ballots, but according to the significant number of votes already cast (23 percent of all registered voters)…