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Title: 200 trans rights advocates lobby Congress
Post by: Natasha on April 16, 2008, 05:50:37 PM
200 trans rights advocates lobby Congress

http://www.nyblade.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=17733
4/16/2008

"Nearly 200 transgender rights activists and their supporters descended on Washington from 29 states this week to urge Congress to support legislation aimed at ending discrimination and violence."
Title: Re: 200 trans rights advocates lobby Congress
Post by: Shana A on April 16, 2008, 10:59:47 PM
200 trans rights advocates lobby Congress
Visitors from 29 states ask lawmakers to oppose gay-only ENDA
By LOU CHIBBARO JR., Washington Blade | Apr 16, 2:12 PM

http://www.washingtonblade.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=17733 (http://www.washingtonblade.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=17733)

Nearly 200 transgender rights activists and their supporters descended on Washington from 29 states this week to urge Congress to support legislation aimed at ending discrimination and violence.

Participants in a March 14 lobby day organized by the Washington-based National Center for Transgender Equality said they hoped to put aside the sharp disagreements that surfaced last year over a decision by House Democratic leaders to remove transgender protections from the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.