Attorney General Martha Coakley comes out for civil rights protections for transgender community
by Laura Kiritsy
Bay Windows
Friday Mar 7, 2008
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In a move that will likely give momentum to the nascent effort to amend the state's civil rights laws to provide protections based on gender identity and expression, Attorney General Martha Coakley is supporting House Bill 1722, a proposal to put those protections on the books. Coakley will give testimony supporting the bill to the Joint Committee on the Judiciary, which will hold a public hearing at the State House on March 4.