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Item: Moscow to consider added protections for transgendered people: Human rights commission member asks city to change its employment nondescrimination policy/Mark Williams, Moscow-Pullman Daily News/Mark Williams, Moscow-Pullman Daily News
More Info: Tim Gresback wants the city to provide more legal protection for transgendered people. The lawyer and Moscow Human Rights Commission member has asked the city to consider adding transgendered people as a specifically protected group in its employment nondiscrimination policy. Speaking before the city’s administrative committee Monday, Gresback said that the city’s current nondiscrimination policy provides protections based on age, race, religion and sexual orientation.
Question: Should Moscow include transgendered people in its current nondiscrimination policy that provides protections based on age, race, religion and sexual orientation.
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BethB on February 24 at 1:42 p.m.
I don’t know the issue, but I do know the lawyer. Tim’s a smart, compassionate guy. He fights the good fight and I’d want him on my side if I happened to be in a legal battle.
scootermom on February 24 at 1:54 p.m.
Yes.
Just because our state Human Rights Commission wouldn’t know a human right if it bit them in the butt, doesn’t mean that cities should follow their shameful lead.
It’s the right thing to do.
Rosalind on February 24 at 4:05 p.m.
YES! The more we can guarantee rights for EVERY person, the better!