Fort Worth Expands Anti Discrimination Ordinance To Cover Trans People

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Fort Worth Expands Anti Discrimination Ordinance To Cover Trans People
Transgriot
By Monica Roberts
11 November 2009


http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/11/fort-worth-expands-anti-discrimination.html


After a marathon session in front of a packed chamber, the Fort Worth City Council voted 6-3 to expand the city's anti-discrimination ordinance to cover transgender people. The ordinance already prevented discrimination based on race, sex, religion or sexual orientation.

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FW approves trans protections


By Tammye Nash | Senior Editor
Nov 12, 2009 - 7:55:12 PM

http://www.dallasvoice.com/artman/publish/article_12107.php

Vote comes after almost 4 hours of testimony from an overflow crowd of supporters, opponents of proposal to amend existing ordinance

FORT WORTH — Tory Van Fleet was one of the dozens of LGBT rights advocates who stood, smiling widely and applauding loudly, in the packed Fort Worth City Council chamber Tuesday night, Nov. 10, in the moments after the council voted 6-3 to add specific protections for transgender people to the city's nondiscrimination ordinance.

But for Van Fleet, the vote was not just a victory in the LGBT civil rights movement. It was a very personal victory.