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Title: Trans Activists Soldier On
Post by: Natasha on February 07, 2008, 05:47:05 PM
Trans Activists Soldier On

http://www.gaycitynews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19272371&BRD=2729&PAG=461&dept_id=569341&rfi=6
By: AMELIA LAING
02/07/2008

Last June, as the Assembly passed a marriage equality law less than three months after it was introduced by Democratic Governor Eliot Spitzer, trans leaders expressed frustration that the issue had leapfrogged over GENDA. The marriage bill passed with 85 votes, but GENDA had the support of 95 members of the Assembly, according to a tally on the website of the Empire State Pride Agenda (ESPA), the state's LGBT lobby group.