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Antidiscrimination Protections Extended to Transgender State Employees
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David A. Patterson is New York's first African American and blind governor. (repmanblog.com) Gov. David A. Paterson plans to extend antidiscrimination protections to transgender state employees, a decision that signifies the broadest inclusion yet of transgender people in state policy, according to several people with direct knowledge of the matter. Mr. Paterson will carry out the decision through an executive order, to be signed ...
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From the NY Times : Gov. David A. Paterson is preparing to issue an executive order that would include transgender people in antidiscrimination policies that govern state agencies. While supporters of transgender legal protections were encouraged by Mr. Paterson’s order, they said it placed New York only in the middle of the pack among states that already make it illegal to discriminate against transgender people in the public ...
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Friends, I learned today that our Senior Senator for the State of New York disrespects women. On a flight back to Washington from New York City, he called a female flight attendant a To make matters worse, he said it to his seat mate the Junior Senator for the State of New York, Kirsten Gillibrand. Not surprisinlgly, according to sources, Senator Gillibrand said nothing to Chuck that this was wrong. The whole reason Chuck called this ...
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This morning, before a room packed with advocates, allies, and journalists at the LGBT Community Center in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, New York Governor David Paterson signed Executive Order No. 33 prohibiting discrimination against any employees of New York State agencies on the basis of their gender identity or expression. Word of his intention to do so spread quickly yesterday after The New York Times received the news. He ...
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