Sentences with phrase «gender expression protection»

Unfortunately, «Comments» are closed for Yosie Saint - Cyr's informative gender - discrimination post of June 9, 2016, «Gender Identity and Gender Expression Protection Under the Law.»

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The pushback from ESPA comes after Flanagan on Friday criticized Cuomo's plan to enhance workplace and housing protections for transgender New Yorkers, enacting parts of the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act — a measure the Senate has declined to adopt in the last several years.

Blade: Is it completely settled now that every gay civil rights bill will include gender identity and expression protections or it won't be introduced, whether it would be ENDA or another bill?

The measure, known as the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, would provide protections against discrimination of transgender people in housing, the workplace and other public accommodations.

Democratic state lawmakers, meanwhile, have called to set the protections for transgender New Yorkers into state law through the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, which has stalled in the state Senate.

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LGBTQ advocates this week sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan urging him to hold a vote on the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, a measure designed to provide legal protections for transgender individuals.

Between 2008 and 2010, Katz served as special assistant to Governor Paterson, where he played a lead role in the enactment of the Dignity for All Students Act, anti-bullying legislation that for the first time created protections based on gender identity and expression in New York State law.

But, now, with the State Legislature in the final few days of its 2013 regular session, the Empire State Pride Agenda, the advocacy and lobby group leading the push for civil rights protections for the transgender community, says that there is «clear momentum» toward enactment of the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act.

Ever since the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act was approved by the Legislature in late 2002, transgender rights advocates have pressed Albany to redress what was left out that year — anti-bias protections in state human rights law based on gender identity and expression.

ESPA left the field with the key goal of the trans community, the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, unfinished business, after the persistent refusal of the Senate Republicans to take up a measure first proposed in early 2003, when the state's gay rights law was adopted without transgender protections.

At 1:30 p.m., Empire State Agenda will be joined in Albany by Assembly members, state senators, and LGBTQ advocates to «demand the State Senate take up the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), civil rights legislation that would extend New York's anti-discrimination laws to safeguard trans individuals, who currently stand outside our state's legal protections against unfair practices.»

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Advocates and Democrats have tried for years to pass the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA)-- legislation granting protections in law to gender - nonconforming individuals — and a ban on gay - conversion thGender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA)-- legislation granting protections in law to gender - nonconforming individuals — and a ban on gay - conversion thgender - nonconforming individuals — and a ban on gay - conversion therapy.

According to the Empire State Pride Agenda, «GENDA would extend basic civil rights protections to all New Yorkers based on their gender identity and expression.»

The governor recalled how the 2002 Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act deliberately excluded transgender persons from its protections for fear it would poison the bill's chances of passage, and the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act — which would have extended those legal shields to individuals who do not conform to prevailing sexual identification norms — has passed the Assembly eight times, but State Senate leadership prevented it from coming up for a vote.

Only about 14 percent of districts have protections based on gender identity or expression.

The proposed legislation also amends the Criminal Code to extend the protection against hate propaganda to any section of the public that is distinguished by gender identity or expression.

Whereas the expressed intent of the law is to add «gender identity and gender expression to the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination» as well as amending the Criminal Code to «extend the protection against hate propaganda set out in that Act to any section of the public that is distinguished by gender identity or expression», some have argued that the law, under its commendable purpose, hides an agenda with the potential to curtail fundamental freedoms.