Debates over four ballot questions in Massachusetts are heating up before the November election. But there’s another ballot campaign gaining traction for a much more distant contest: an activist group says they have enough signatures to meet a deadline this week to repeal the state’s new law on transgender public accommodations. That law allows transgender individuals to use public spaces without discrimination. It took effect October 1st.

For our weekly look at Beacon Hill politics, we turn to State House reporter Shira Schoenberg of the Springfield Republican newspaper, and asked her why this group wants the new law repealed.

For more on the effort to repeal the state’s transgender accommodations law, click the audio player above to hear Schoenberg’s conversation with New England Public Radio’s Henry Epp.