Massachusetts State Senate President Stanley Rosenberg defended the state’s new transgender protections law on Boston Herald radio this morning, predicting the law eventually will be met with the same acceptance as gay marriage in Massachusetts.

“The Commonwealth is not going to fall into the ocean. This law is in place in more than 17 other jurisdictions, and there’s no problem with it,” Rosenberg told "Morning Meeting" hosts Jaclyn Cashman and Hillary Chabot. “It’s going to be a repeat of what happened with same-sex marriage, which is two years after it started they were trying to repeal it on the ballot, but there were no problems, the Commonwealth did not fall into the ocean, there was widespread acceptance that it was the right thing to do.”

Opponents of the new law said earlier this week they had enough signatures to get a measure that would repeal the law on the 2018 ballot. Opponents have also contested the constitutionality of the law, and are seeking to overturn it in the courts.

“You’ll see there’s going to be nothing that people are going to be able to point to in terms of any kind of widespread inappropriate behavior or whatever people are imagining might happen,” said Rosenberg, the state's first openly gay Senate president.

Rosenberg also weighed in on the presidential race, the shakeup at the Energy and Environmental Affairs agency and other matters.