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Obama's Transgender Rights Campaign Gets Little Attention

Started by Olivia P, June 22, 2014, 09:59:02 AM

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June 22, 2014, 09:59:02 AM
By LISA LEFF
Posted: 06/21/2014 10:26 am EDT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Barack Obama, who established his bona fides as a gay and lesbian rights champion when he endorsed same-sex marriage, has steadily extended his administration's advocacy to the smallest and least accepted band of the LGBT rainbow: transgender Americans.

With little of the fanfare or criticism that marked his evolution into the leader Newsweek nicknamed "the first gay president," Obama became the first chief executive to say "transgender" in a speech, to name transgender political appointees and to prohibit job bias against transgender government workers. Also in his first term, he signed hate crime legislation that became the first federal civil rights protections for transgender people in U.S. history.

More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/21/obama-transgender-rights_n_5517676.html
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