Sat Dec 01, 2012 at 04:00 PM PST
There's something we don't see every day
by rserven
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/01/1166479/-There-s-something-we-don-t-see-every-dayFormer New Zealand Member of Parliament Katherine O'Regan has apologized to the transgender community for not protecting us when changes were made to the New Zealand Human Rights Act in 1993.
In 1993, as Associate Minister of Health, O'Regan led the amending of the Human Rights act to outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and having organisms in the body which might cause disease.
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O'Regan said that now she wishes it had been included and expressed her hoped that it would be addressed soon. Then she expressly apologized to transpeople for not including us in the 90s.
Apologizing to the transgender community is something I cannot recall happening before.
