U.S. Job Site Bans Bias Over Gender Identity

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U.S. Job Site Bans Bias Over Gender Identity
New York Times
by Brian Knowlton
January 5, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/us/06gender.html

The Obama administration has inserted language into the federal jobs Web site explicitly banning employment discrimination based on gender identity.

The protection is expected to apply to the small transgender population — people who identify their gender differently from the information on their birth certificates — and it merely formalizes what had been increasingly unchallenged government practice over several years.