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Bills under consideration target transgender bias

Started by Shana A, April 24, 2011, 08:45:13 AM

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April 24, 2011, 08:45:13 AM
Bills under consideration target transgender bias

http://www.lvrj.com/news/bills-under-consideration-target-transgender-bias-120563274.html?ref=274

By Ed Vogel
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL CAPITAL BUREAU
Posted: Apr. 24, 2011 | 2:05 a.m.

CARSON CITY

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Grayson and Heenan are two of the estimated 25,000 transgender people in Nevada who are hoping that state legislators and Gov. Brian Sandoval will recognize them in the coming weeks as human beings who deserve legal protection, not as freaks to be shunned. There are six bills to prevent discrimination against transgender people pending in the Legislature this session.

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"No one wants a man showing up for work in a pink tutu," said Lauren Scott, a leader of Equality Nevada and a lobbyist for the bills. "We want to portray ourselves in a way not unbecoming to a professional workplace. There isn't going to be a circus act coming to work everyday."
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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