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Title: New York governor signs executive order protecting transgender state workers
Post by: Shana A on December 29, 2009, 08:15:52 AM
Post by: Shana A on December 29, 2009, 08:15:52 AM
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 (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."
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 (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."
Title: Re: New York governor signs executive order protecting transgender state workers
Post by: gennee on December 31, 2009, 12:28:37 PM
Post by: gennee on December 31, 2009, 12:28:37 PM
Great news for transgender state workers. Now we need to work on getting GENDA passed.
Gennee
:)
Gennee
:)
Title: Re: New York governor signs executive order protecting transgender state workers
Post by: Chaunte on December 31, 2009, 12:58:30 PM
Post by: Chaunte on December 31, 2009, 12:58:30 PM
Quote from: gennee on December 31, 2009, 12:28:37 PM
Great news for transgender state workers. Now we need to work on getting GENDA passed.
Gennee
:)
You have got that right, Gennee!
No surrender!