It's been a pretty good year so far for transgender people
http://lgbtweekly.com/2011/06/16/its-been-a-pretty-good-year-so-far-for-transgender-people-3/6/16/11
Autumn Sandeen
In the big picture of basic civil rights for transgender Americans, 2011 has to this point been a good year for civil rights progress. Sometimes I know it's hard to focus on what's been accomplished when we also see what hasn't yet been accomplished, or see backward steps, but for trans people we've seen more civil rights gains than losses.
To begin with, three states have added antidiscrimination protections based on gender identity to their lists of protected classes for antidiscrimination legislation.
In Hawaii, the state legislature added employment antidiscrimination protections for gender identity adding to the states pre-existent antidiscrimination protections for employment and public accommodations. Hawaii became the 13th state and the first state since 2006, to add employment protections for transgender people
