New York governor signs executive order protecting transgender state workers

[Shana A]

New York governor signs executive order protecting transgender state workers
December 28, 9:31 PM
Sonoma County Civil Rights Examiner
Megan Coffey

http://www.examiner.com/x-18104-Sonoma-County-Civil-Rights-Examiner~y2009m12d28-New-York-governor-signs-executive-order-protecting-transgender-state-workers

In a move that takes some of the sting out of the defeat of a same-sex marriage bill in New York's state senate earlier in the month, on December 16 New York Governor David Paterson signed an executive order protecting transgender state workers from employment discrimination.  Paterson made a point of staging the signing ceremony in Greenwich Village in Manhattan, just blocks from where transgender bar patrons in 1969 helped carry out the Stonewall riots that are now widely viewed as the beginning of the modern LGBT rights movement.  As Paterson reminded those present at the ceremony, transgender people have been "the objects of the greatest discrimination, the greatest disparagement probably of any class."

[gennee]

Great news for transgender state workers. Now we need to work on getting GENDA passed.

Gennee

[Chaunte]

Great news for transgender state workers. Now we need to work on getting GENDA passed.

Gennee

You have got that right, Gennee!

No surrender!