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BayWindows.com – by Ethan Jacobs – Associate Editor
To hear opponents of the transgender rights bill describe the legislation, one might think it would unleash full-scale anarchy on the Commonwealth. House Bill 1728 makes the state’s hate crimes law…
blogs.VillageVoice.com – By Roy Edroso in Albany
Before they get to Paterson’s gay marriage bill, let’s see if they can pass this first: the Assembly has cleared the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), which would prohibit discriminati…
TheSomervilleNews.com – By Ben Johnson
Somerville State Representative Carl M. Sciortino has been instrumental in pushing forward a legislative bill that promises to protect transgender citizens from discrimination and hate crimes in Massachusetts. …
EdgeBoston.com – by Joe Siegel – EDGE New England Editor
Friday Apr 10, 2009
Amid the hoopla over the Iowa Supreme Court decision and marriage legislation in Vermont, activists in several New England states have been lobbying lawmakers to add trans…
BaltimoreSun.com – By Kathleen Miller – The Associated Press
Maryland’s transgender residents are worried the legislature will adjourn for the second year in a row without taking action on a bill that would prohibit discrimination against them.
T…
BostonHerald.com – By Associated Press
Concord, N.H. – The New Hampshire House has reversed itself and passed a bill extending anti-discrimination protections to transgender individuals by a single vote.
The House voted 181-149 to kill the bill l…
Straight.com – By Jessica Cooper
I have no rights. I have no right to freedom from discrimination. I have no right to secure employment. I have no right to a safe place to live. I don’t even have the right to go to the washroom in peace. It’s amazin…
TheJakartaGlobe.com – Muninggar Sri Saraswati
Political parties and legislative candidates have failed to involve vulnerable groups like the poor, disabled people and transsexuals in this year’s campaign, it was claimed on Monday.
During a discus…
LVRJ.com – By Molly Ball – Las Vegas Review-Journal
Conservative activist aims for Parks recall
An automated call accusing state Sen. David Parks, D-Las Vegas, of being on the side of “perverts” went out recently to Parks’ constituents.
The c…
StateNews.com – By Brittany Shammas – The State News
He hadn’t even left home for his freshman year at MSU, but animal science senior Uri Donnett and his family had spent months talking to housing officials over the phone, hoping to resolve a confl…