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Title: Why Context Matters
Post by: Natasha on August 06, 2008, 05:15:28 PM
Why Context Matters

http://endablog.wordpress.com/2008/08/03/why-context-matters/ (http://endablog.wordpress.com/2008/08/03/why-context-matters/)
8/4/2008

The Chicago Tribune has a seemingly innocuous little item up at the moment, simply entitled:

Anti-discrimination legislation

It is about trans-specific stuff.

The first factoid:

*Champaign at the fore: *In 1978, Champaign becomes the first city in
Illinois to protect transgender people in the workplace. It was the second
municipality in the country to do so.