What Trans Activists Can Learn from New York
By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: June 25, 2011
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Amid all the cheering about marriage equality in New York State, it's worth remembering that transgender people continue to lag far behind our gay brothers and sisters in the fight for equal rights. In 36 states, I can still be fired for being my own damned self, and here in Maine we only narrowly defeated a bill this spring that would have actually removed people like me from the Maine Human Rights Act. But the victory in New York is an occasion not only for joy for our allies, but to observe how this victory took place.