Next In The Connecticut LGBT Legislation Queue: Transgender Civil Rights?
by: Autumn Sandeen
Tue Feb 10, 2009 at 04:00:00 AM EST
http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=9409From the New Haven Independent's Campaign Puts The "T" Back In "LGBT" comes a piece with interesting comments. First though, the opening newsy paragraph from the piece:
Now that they've brought same-sex marriage to Connecticut, advocates took on a new mission to a downtown town hall meeting: protecting transgender civil rights.
Now the interesting comments paragraph (emphasis added):
Anne Stanback, executive director of [Love Makes A Family (LMF)], noted the transgender community supported same-sex couples in their fight for marriage equality. The larger GLB community needs to now support a bill to add "gender identity or expression" to the state's non-discrimination law covering employment, education, housing, public accommodation or credit, she said. She said that at the legislature, "There was a sense that they could work on only one queer bill at a time... and marriage came first, so the trans bill has been more on the back burner."
