Sentences with phrase «for gender expression»

As Jordenö tries to illustrate, it's a minority within a minority, a safe haven for gender expression and stylized femininity that might be rejected or even met with threats of violence elsewhere.

City Comptroller John Liu is all for the Gender Expression Non Discrimination Act that has been passed in the state assembly and introduced in the senate by Sen. Daniel Squadron.

Kennedy was endorsed by the Stonewall Democrats of Western New York, who cited in a statement his support for the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act and for outlawing so - called gay conversion therapy.

It is an inclusive and safe space for all gender expressions and orientations, but also open to those who support LGBTQIA individuals.

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It is the policy of Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to provide equal opportunity in employment throughout the corporation for all qualified applicants and employees without discrimination against any person because of a person's race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex / gender (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions and breast feeding), national origin, ancestry, gender identity, gender expression, legally - protected medical condition, physical or mental disability, age, military or veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable law.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity for all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, or gender expression, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law, ordinance, or regulation.

Therefore we call for an end to all religious and civil discrimination against any person based on sexual orientation and gender identity and expression.

However, an ambitious Welcoming Synagogues project, launched in 2007 at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles, aims to train congregations cross across denominations to become safe and welcoming spaces for Jews of all sexual orientations and gender expressions.

Every relationship we have within the church family, for example, is not just with «fellow believers,» but with brothers or sisters: gendered, healthy expressions of familial connection.

Therefore we call for an end to all religious and civil discrimination against any person based on seixual orientation and gender identity and expression.

While most people indeed have a heterosexual orientation and identify with a single gender that was assigned to them at birth, it has become increasingly clear that this is not the case for everyone, that gender and sexuality might better be understood as manifesting themselves along continuums, with male / female, masculine / feminine, heterosexual / homosexual existing at the poles but with a variety of identities, orientations, and expressions in between.

I hold that the approximately 10 percent of the world population who are homosexual in inclination and whose only satisfying sexual expression is that with someone of their own gender are acting in a fashion which is entirely normal and natural for them.

The church is an expression of mankind coming to worship and interact with God and as long as there is Man (in the generic rather than a gender) and he / they are looking for something greater than themselves, there will be a church.

It is the policy of the Kraft Heinz Company to afford full Equal Employment Opportunity, and all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, pregnancy, race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other legally - protected status.

According to postgenderism — the belief that «men and women should use advanced biotechnologies to reduce the gender gap and create entirely new opport - unities for sexual expression» — we'd be much freer to explore both our masculine and feminine sides if our bodies and personalities were no longer constrained and limited by gendered traits.

To strive for equity in delivering a transformative, healing, and empowering experience to those communities that recognizes and embraces our differences in race, religion, ability, nationality, sexual orientation, gender expression and identity, family structure, cancer stage or type, or socioeconomic status.

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.

Levi cited Schneiderman's vote in suopport of the Hate Crimes Bill and the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act (SONDA), his lead sponsorship of the Dignity for All Students Act, which passed the Senate in June, 58 - 3, and his sponsorship of the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA).

The video features each of the eight members of the IDC discussing policies such as their support for issues like abortion rights and the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, or GENDA.

* Marriage equality in New York * New York's Dignity for All Students Act (DASA) * New York's Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA) * Federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), * The immediate repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT)

BY PAUL SCHINDLER LGBT rights advocates and elected officials gathered outside City Hall on March 12 to press the case for enactment of the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA) in Albany this spring.

The Empire State Pride Agenda has other issues it continues to press, including help for homeless LGBT youth and the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, which has had a tough slog in the Legislature.

Since the passage of the same - sex marriage bill two years ago, GENDA, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression in employment, housing, public accommodations and credit, has become a top priority for the LGBT community in New York.

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.

LGBT advocates have pressed state elected officials to take up measures that would bolster rights for transgender New Yorkers, including the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act.

The letter also took the opportunity to make the case for incumbent Rivera, noting his support for marriage equality, the long - stalled Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, and Hoylman's bill to bar mental health professionals from subjecting patients who are minors to «sexual orientation change efforts» — so - call reparative therapy.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Advocates for transgender rights hit back hard on Friday after the State Senate's Republican leader raised questions about the propriety of Governor Andrew Cuomo's recent announcement that New York will treat discrimination based on gender identity and expression as discrimination based on sex and disability, areas already covered by the State Human -LSB-...]

Separate and apart from existing federal law, New York State's Dignity for All Students Act expressly prohibits bullying, discrimination, and harassment, on school property or at a school function, on the basis of a student's gender identity or expression.

1118 - FCO - For first time in 64 year history the Commonwealth will have a formal Charter setting out core values: democracy; human rights; peace and security; tolerance, respect and understanding; freedom of expression; separation of powers; rule of law; good governance; sustainable development; environmental protection; access to health, education, food and shelter; gender equality; and the importance of young people and civil society.

Meanwhile, some lawmakers are expected to once again push for the passage of the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, a bill that is designed to block discrimination in the workplace or housing based on gender ideGender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, a bill that is designed to block discrimination in the workplace or housing based on gender idegender identity.

Brooklyn Democratic Sen. Daniel Squadron is trying to force a vote on the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act in the Republican - controlled Senate, a measure that has taken on more urgency for LGBT advocates in recent weeks.

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.

The long - stalled Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, passed last week for the seventh time by the Assembly and sponsored in the Senate by Lower Manhattan - Downtown Brooklyn Democrat Daniel Squadron, will not get a floor vote this session.

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.

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE As she was discussing crime and the extent to which New York City residents feel safe in the city, Nicole Malliotakis, the presumptive Republican candidate for mayor and a member of the State Assembly since 2011, was asked about her continuing opposition to the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), which would add gender -LSGender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), which would add gender -LSgender -LSB-...]

Definitions of the terms «gender identity» and «gender expression» have already been given by the Ontario Human Rights Commission, for example.

Under the city bill, therapists could be hit with a $ 1,000 fine for each violation of the ban on charging for services designed to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.

We look forward to Ross continuing to build on that record to pass marriage equality legislation, the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act and the Dignity for All Students Act.»

During his time at the Pride Agenda he has been actively involved with the passage of dozens of laws, ordinances, regulations and Executive Orders on the state and local level affecting New York's LGBT community, including statewide measures like: the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act; the Hate Crimes Act of 2000; making the state's 9/11 relief inclusive of same - sex couples; guaranteeing domestic partners hospital visitation, legal authority over a loved one's bodily remains, access to Family Court and medical decision making authority; prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression in state employment; and securing over $ 50 million of funding for LGBT health and human services.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER The argument for the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act is clear and catches the public's attention because it is so stunning: in 29 states you can legally be fired for being gay and in 32 — including New York — you are at risk due to your gender identity and expression.

In keeping with the Green Key Values of diversity, social justice and feminism, we support full legal and political equality for all persons, regardless of sex, gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity, characteristics, and expression.

he Bathroom Bill would force New York employers to accommodate cross-dressing employees in the workplace, would make New York businesses liable for real or invented transgressions upon a civil right to «gender identity or expression,» and would give intact biological males who assert female gender identities access to women's locker rooms, changing areas, and restrooms in places of public accommodation, thus compromising the privacy and safety of women and girls.

The New York Senate has blocked two bills passed by the Assembly last week — one banning gay conversion therapy for minors, as well as the Gender Expression Nondiscrimination Act (GENDA).

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.

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.

The study of gender differences in the brain and the resulting differences in behavior dates back to the mid-1800s, with the classic experiment of German physician Arnold Berthold, who showed that testicular secretions were essential for the normal expression of male actions.

It is difficult to accurately estimate the number of transgender people mostly because there are no population studies that accurately and completely account for the range of gender identity and gender expression.

Transgender is an umbrella term for individuals whose gender identity, gender expression or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they were assigned at birth.

According to the paper, «In U.S. society, youth are inundated with messages from media, peers and family about cultural expectations of gender expression for girls and women, boys and men.