Sentences with phrase «gender identity as»

In addition, while the Fair Housing Act does not specifically include sexual orientation and gender identity as bases for discrimination, a lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender person may still claim violation of the Fair Housing Act based on certain actions of a relator or broker.

Article 10's promise of equal professional services was expanded to include gender identity as an additional «protected class.»

This class explores personal, political and clinical issues of race and gender in eating disorder treatment including differences between gender roles, sexual orientation and gender identity as well as specific risk and protective factors, the impact of oppression and assimilation stress on identity development, and culturally relevant treatment implications.

The Supreme Court of Canada has interpreted membership in a social group as inclusive of sexual orientation and most, if not all, Canadian adjudicators likely now accept gender identity as an analogous ground.

This is one of several failed attempts to protect persons from discrimination by including gender identity as a protected ground under the Canadian Human Rights Act and Criminal Code.

The argument that the respondent discriminated against her on the basis of disability, however, is advanced in the alternative with some reluctance on the applicant's part, because, notwithstanding that she has been diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder (by psychiatrist Dr. Chris McIntosh who testified at the hearing of this matter), the applicant does not regard her gender identity as a «disability».

This week, the Saskatchewan government amended its Human Rights Code to add gender identity as a prohibited ground of discrimination, joining the Northwest Territories, Ontario, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, P.E.I. and Newfoundland and Labrador in so doing.

Maher will discuss fluid gender identity as an artistic subject.

Narrated in her utterly captivating prose style and with exquisite insight, humor, empathy, nuance, and at great personal cost, Norah uses her intimate firsthand experience to explore the many remarkable mysteries of gender identity as well as who men are apart from and in relation to women.

This will give the time and space and indeed permission to discuss matters relating to sex and gender identity as well as sexual relationships.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats are calling for more inclusive, up - to - date and age - appropriate SRE to begin at Key Stage 2 and include specific provision on sexuality and gender identity as is suitable.

The House passed the bill in 2007, but incorporated only provisions regarding sexual orientation, not gender identity as well.

Science and psychology continue to confirm this as a reality, with the American Psychological Association no longer characterizing variations in sexual orientation and gender identity as disorders, only warning that stigmatization based on them can negatively affect mental health.

I am not convinced that... surgical interventions are necessarily the right response for people... The reason I'm unsure is that if someone's gender identity does not match with their physical body, our culture treats our gender identity as what really defines us, rather than our physical sex.

«Although I disagree with painting sexual orientation and gender identity as a biblical sin, Wheaton has a right to that interpretation,» Knapp said.

His work engages with postcolonialism, migration and diaspora, racism and minor gender identities as thematic approach.

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-- Harassing an employee because of a gender transition, such as by intentionally and persistently failing to use the name and gender pronoun that correspond to the gender identity with which the employee identifies, and which the employee has communicated to management and employees.

It's truly ironic that the field responsible for branding has a brand identity that's about as unambiguous as Facebook's 58 gender options.

Transgender can refer to any range of diverse gender identities or expressions — such as transgender, trans man, trans woman, intersex, non-binary, genderless, two - spirited, and many others — and is better expressed under the umbrella term trans.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

Born as Bradley Manning to a Welsh mother and an American father, Manning also elevated discussion on LGBT rights in the military after her struggles with gender identity came to light in the midst of the WikiLeaks scandal.

As it stands, the law prevents local governments in North Carolina from passing nondiscrimination ordinances, and bans transgender people from using the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity.

The changed legal positions already advanced by Sessions means minority voters looking to prove that the state's strict voter ID law is intentionally discriminatory will probably have to do without the federal government's backing, as will transgender students who argue that the law allows them to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity.

Tim Manning served as Chair of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade in 2015 - 16 — a year in which the organization made headlines by achieving a gender - balanced board of directors, released its milestone report the Greater Vancouver Economic Scorecard 2016, and adopted a new name and regional identity, following a historic vote by its Members.

As the number of choices for gender identity proliferates, it's unclear why the difference between male and female should matter that much.

So the proliferation of gender identities logically undermines gender or, as it used to be called, sex.

As to whether the devil is straight: Conjectures based on the textual evidence are admittedly just that — conjectures — but that should not stop us from retrojecting our notions of gender identity.

There are few things as deep to a person's self - identity as their sexual orientation and gender identity... and few treasures held so deeply.

«By teaching [students] that this «gender identity» is their «authentic self,» disassociated from the body, we are actively training children into a state of «gender dysphoria» as the normal,» Davies Arai states on her blog, Transgender Trend.

The point applies to our choices about gender identity — especially the choices our children will have to make as they grow up, unlike us, having no choice but to choose in this particular marketplace.

I think the church, from a position of strength, conceded far too much by supporting the legislature's use of dubious psychological concepts such as «gender identity» and «sexual orientation» in state anti-discrimination law.

Family Research Council president Tony Perkins and other evangelical leaders who oppose recognizing sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) as protected classes spoke out against Trump's decision to keep the controversial Obama order.

Proponents see these policies as examples of sexual - orientation, sex, and gender - identity discrimination that should not occur in state - funded programs.

While I think it's irresponsible to blame family and friends for a loved one's suicide, I believe it's just as irresponsible to ignore the reality that gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth are four times more likely to attempt suicide as straight peers, that nearly half of young transgender people have considered taking their lives, and that LGBT youth who come from families who reject their gender identities or sexual orientations are more than eight times more likely to attempt suicide than those who come from supportive families.

The differentiation of homosexual orientation from gender identity (for females as well as males) has been increasingly recognized, and a highly competent summing up is available in Man and Woman: Boy and Girl, by John Money and Anke A. Ehrhardt (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972).

Gender Identity is about who you'd like to go to bed as.

The gender ideology process treats motherhood and human spousal / heterosexual identity as social constructions or stereotypes that must be deconstructed to grant each individual an equal access to «free choice».

I think the fact that Hinduism so displayed the unknowable god as female, male, intersexed, with gender identities that could be masculine or feminine, or both, regardless of biological sex... it added layers of meaning.

Denied recognition as a minister by the Atlanta presbytery, Erin now works as «a psychotherapist in private practice specializing in gender - identity issues.»

It defines conversion therapy as any therapeutic approach assumes one gender identity is «inherently preferable to any other, and attempts to bring about a change of sexual orientation or gender identity, or seeks to supress an individual's expression of sexual orientation or gender identity on that basis.»

So rather than talk about gender roles, gay and lesbian issues, etc., we decided to talk about what we saw as the basic concern in all of this - belonging, i.e., can I belong in a community and have my identity and sexuality supported and upheld?

Much of the ideology surrounding the civil rights defense is built on the premise that sexuality is inextricably tied to identity, just as a person's race, gender or country of origin is.

Where did they get the idea that our sexual identity («gender» was the term they preferred) as men or women was in the category of things that could be changed?

Without recourse to an immutable reality impervious to biological aberration, the progressive can not defend the will as any more reliable an indicator of gender identity than the rest of the fallible human body to which it belongs.

You don't have a clue as to the causes of gender identity.

4) Thou shall treat all humans as equals, regardless of race, gender, age, creed, identity, orientation, physical ability, or status.

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.

Concepts such as sexual orientation and gender identity catapult huge stones into the pool of language, kicking up its surface and causing waves to spread outwards.

Whereas the old left, from the Progressive Era to the Depression, openly asserted the interests of the «working man» and organized labor, advocates of feminism, diversity, and gender identity, and neoliberal economics, too, justify their positions as a generic social justice or economic freedom.