Rose MacKenzie: Lawmakers should support gender hate-crimes bill

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Rose MacKenzie: Lawmakers should support gender hate-crimes bill
Wicked Local Salem
By Rose MacKenzie
Fri Jul 31, 2009, 11:41 PM EDT


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I am writing in response to the hearing on An Act Relative to Gender-Based Discrimination and Hate Crimes, also known as the Transgender Civil Right Bill, that the Joint Committee on the Judiciary heard on July 14, 2009.