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Sounds like fun but dont most -passable- types just shy away from those events and disappear into suburbia? Not gospel or fact, just something to think about...
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DATE: JUNE 14, 2002
TO: Media Outlets: City Editor, Assignment Editor FROM: Philadelphians United to Support Public Schools RE: PHILADELPHIANS HEAD TO NEW YORK CITY TO PROTEST OUTSIDE EDISON HQ's We welcome any media who want to join us on the trip. Buses will depart by 9:30 a.m. and return to Philadelphia between 4-4:30 p.m. Please call us ASAP so we can ensure room on the buses for you. Philadelphians United to Support Public Schools c/o 7 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103 June 14, 2002 IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Helen Gym: 215-563-6076, 215-808-1400 (c ) PHILADELPHIA TO BRING HUNDREDS TO AN ANTI-EDISON RALLY IN NEW YORK CITY Tues., June 18, 2002 Rally at 12 noon 521 Fifth Avenue New York City Press conferences will be held at 9 a.m. from each departure location: 455 N. Fifth Street Love Park, 16th & JFK Blvd. Frankford Ave. & Somerset South Phila. (TBA): Contact 215-587-6822 Two hundred parents, students, employees and Philadelphia citizens are headed to New York City to send a message that they will fight any attempt by Edison Schools to come to Philadelphia "This is not about a company; it's not about reform. It's about our children. They deserve to be treated right. They deserve to be educated, not cheated," said Gladys Ortiz, a parent. For the past few months concerns about Edison Schools have peaked nationally with Fortune Magazine recently citing the company in its cover story on "horrifying corporate practices." At least six districts have announced that they will sever contracts with Edison Schools. Chester City School District cited Edison in two consecutive reports, for failing to provide adequate services to special needs populations, including children whose first language is not English. Activists headed for New York intend to send a message that despite Edison's financial and political backing, they have not won entrée into Philadelphia. "We will not go down without a fight, said student Christina Rivera of ASPIRA. Philadelphians United to Support Public Schools: ASPIRA, Alliance Organizing Project, Asian Americans United, Black Radical Congress, Coalition of Labor Union Women, The Brown Collective, Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network Philadelphia (GLSEN), Germantown Women's Y, Institute for the Study of Civic Values, Jews Uniting for Social Justice, Jobs With Justice, League of Women Voters of Philadelphia, National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights, Parents Organized for Public Schools of EPOP, Parents Union for Public Schools, Parents United for Better Schools, Peace Action-Delaware Valley, Philadelphia Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY), Philadelphia Folklore Project, Philadelphia Home and School Council, Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Task Force, Philadelphia Student Union, Philadelphia Voter Mobilization Coalition, School Employees Action Caucus, Self-Education Foundation, Spiral Q Puppet Theatre, Solutions for Progress, Youth Help Empowerment Project, Youth United for Change. |
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Pirotessa
Good thinking! It's just another kind of self hatred that comes from being a part of a minority group that suffers discrimination. "Divide and Conquer"...is the name of the game. Most of us have too much unhealthy pride to get past our differences! |
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From: torourke@glsen.org (Tony O'Rourke)
On the positive side, we have managed to get inclusive language in the language for the Board of Ed. policy in Maryland (they are to vote on it later this month) and in the language of the New Jersey State legislation that is up for consideration (although they WOULD be covered because THEIR state supreme court already ruled that their law covers gender identity or expression - but as we always argue, it's best to have it spelled out, of course). |
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From: torourke@glsen.org (Tony O'Rourke)
Please read the note below. If you know anyone living in New Jersey, please urge them to support this bill. Note also that it includes (and we should give praise to the folks in New Jersey for having will to not back down on this) gender identity and expression. If this bill passes, we are assured that Governor McGreevy will sign it and it will be law in short order. So please call or write your friends and family in New Jersey and ask them to call their State Senator and urge her or him to vote for passage! ================================================ Subject: vote in NJ Senate [Bill numbers: S. 149 / S. 729] The NJ State Senate is scheduled to vote at their 2 PM session this Monday (6/24) on a bullying and harassment prevention bill that will provide important protections for K-12 students hroughout the state, including those harassed on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression. It has already passed the Assembly, as well as the Senate Education Committee, and if it passes the full Senate, it is almost certain to be signed into law by the governor. The next 18 hours are critical in assuring that the votes are there in the Senate. Please contact your senator to let her or him know of your support. Also, please forward this information to any supportive individuals or mailing lists throughout the state and encourage people to call or email their state Senator's offices ASAP [no later than 2 PM Monday 6/24]. To identify your state Senator, go to the NJ legislature home page (http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/), and in the left column under the "MEMBERS", click on "Find your legislator". Locate your municipality, then click on the associated District number. It is important to reach senators throughout New Jersey. State Senator Richard Codey of District 27 (South Orange, Maplewood, and other nearby towns) has pledged his support. FYI, an official summary of the bill is provided below. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------ NOTE: These are the Assembly numbers - Do NOT use these numbers in referencing the bill to Senators offices!! The Assembly Education Committee favorably reports an Assembly Committee Substitute for Assembly Bill Nos. 1874 and 1526. This committee substitute requires each school district to adopt a policy prohibiting harassment, intimidation or bullying on school property, at a school-sponsored function or on a school bus. "Harassment, intimidation or bullying" is defined in the substitute to mean any gesture or written, verbal or physical act that is reasonably perceived as being motivated either by any actual or perceived characteristic, such as race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, or a mental, physical or sensory handicap, or by any other distinguishing characteristic, that takes place on school property, at any school-sponsored function or on a school bus and that: 1) a reasonable person should know, under the circumstances, will have the effect of harming a student or damaging the student's property, or placing a student in reasonable fear of harm to his person or damage to his property; or 2) has the effect of insulting or demeaning any student or group of students in such a way as to cause substantial disruption in, or substantial interference with, the orderly operation of the school. A school district will determine the content of the policy, except that the policy must contain, at a minimum, the following components: - a statement prohibiting harassment, intimidation or bullying of a student; - a definition of harassment, intimidation or bullying that is no less inclusive than that established in the substitute; - a description of the type of behavior expected from each student; - consequences and appropriate remedial action for a person who commits an act of harassment, intimidation or bullying; - a procedure for reporting an act of harassment, intimidation or bullying; - a procedure for prompt investigation of reports of violations and complaints, identifying the person responsible for the investigation; - the range of ways in which a school will respond once an incident is identified; - a statement that prohibits reprisal or retaliation against any person who reports an act of harassment, intimidation or bullying and the consequence and appropriate remedial action for a person who engages in reprisal or retaliation; - consequences and appropriate remedial action for a person found to have falsely accused another as a means of retaliation or as a means of harassment, intimidation or bullying; and - a statement of how the policy is to be publicized. The substitute states that the school district must attempt to adopt its policy through a process that includes representation of various interested parties. Under the substitute a school district must adopt a policy and transmit a copy of its policy to the county superintendent of schools by September 1, 2003. In order to assist the school districts in developing their policies, the Commissioner of Education must develop a model policy no later than December 1, 2002. The substitute requires school employees, students or volunteers who have witnessed, or have reliable information that a student has been subject to, harassment, intimidation or bullying to report the incident to the appropriate school official. The substitute prohibits school employees, students or volunteers from engaging in reprisal, retaliation or false accusation against any victim, witness or any person with reliable information about an act of harassment, intimidation or bullying. A school employee who promptly reports an incident of harassment, intimidation or bullying to the appropriate school official is granted immunity under the provisions of the substitute from a cause of action for damages arising from any failure to remedy the reported incident. |
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Just wanted to let you know that the anti-bullying bill in New Jersey (A1874) passed the State Senate today by a vote of 38-0. That means there were no "NO" votes in either house. None of this could have been possible without everyone's support, so thank you so much for making this happen.
We are pretty sure that Governor McGreevy will sign the bill into law, so that New Jersey will become the 9th state to specifically protect students from harassment based on Sexual Orientation and only the third state to do so specifically based on Gender Identity or Expression!! Thanks again to all for your hard work and support- Yours in Respect, tony JOIN GLSEN AT OUR NATIONAL CONFERENCE Teaching Respect for All in Los Angeles, California October 4 - 6, 2002 Go To www.glsen.org and click on "Events" for more information Tony O'Rourke-Quintana GLSEN - Northeast Field Organizer 121 W. 27th Street, Suite 804 NY, NY 10001 212-727-0135, ext. 110 torourke@glsen.org |
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Federal Appeals Court Rejects Attempt to Keep Transgender Woman from Using the Women's Restroom [at school] by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
http://365gay.com/ (June 21, Minneapolis, Minnesota) A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that a Minneapolis public school did not discriminate against a female teacher by allowing a transsexual woman, also a teacher at the school, use the women's restroom. After an unsuccessful attempt to pursue her claim through a state labour board, Southwest High School teacher Carla Cruzan filed suit in federal court arguing that permitting transgender library employee Debra Davis to use the women's bathroom violated Cruzan's religious freedom and created a hostile workplace based on sex. The district court rejected her claims, and she appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, in St.Louis. In opinion issued Thursday, the 8th Circuit also rejected Cruzan's claims. The Court held that subjective personal opinions and sensitivities cannot form the basis of a hostile work environment claim, which must be based on conduct that a reasonable person would find hostile and offensive. "This is a great victory for transgender employees, who wish merely to be treated with basic human dignity," said Shannon Minter, the Legal Director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights. "The Court made it clear that employers cannot discriminate against transgender people simply because some other employees don't like them." NCLR filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case, which argued that subjective personal opinions and sensitivities cannot form the basis of a hostile work environment claim, which must be based on conduct that a reasonable person would find hostile and offensive. "This case had two common threads that we see all across the country -- someone didn't want a transgendered person to have basic access to restrooms and then used religion as a smokescreen for blatant discrimination," said Tamara Lange, an ACLU Lesbian & Gay Rights Project staff attorney who wrote a friend-of-the-court brief supporting the school. Recently in San Diego, a father complained to his daughter's school district claiming that his daughter was being discriminated against for having had to share a bathroom with other lesbian students. In a similar incident this year, another public school in northern California told an eighth grade girl that she could no longer attend gym class after she came out as a lesbian. ================================================== |
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http://www.rochesterdandc.com/news/0626story10_news.shtml
Summary: Trans activist Pam Barres is the new interim ED of Rochester's LGBT center. |
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Cleveland - A transgender woman called "Mrs. Doubtfire" by co-workers has settled an employment discrimination case against United Consumer Financial Services of Westlake to her satisfaction and strengthened TG worker rights in the process.
The case was the first to hold that the 1964 Civil Rights Act covers sexual stereotype non-conformity. After mediation, it was resolved to the mutual satisfaction of both parties on June 28, said attorney Randi Barnabee of Macedonia, who represented the 60-year-old Cleveland woman. UCFS finances consumer purchases of Kirby sweepers and World Book encyclopedias. Because the initial complaint alleged that UCFS violated the woman's right to privacy, her identity has not been made public and the amount of the settlement is also confidential. Prior to filing the federal civil rights suit, the woman turned down UCFS's offer to settle for $1,500. Barnabee told the Gay People's Chronicle in May 2001 that she felt the case had merit and would not allow her client to settle for less than a substantial amount. UCFS fired the woman July 11, 2000 after she had worked ten days as a temporary worker through Reserves Network. The case was filed in the United States District Court of Northern Ohio in January 2001. Notes kept by the temporary agency were used to document the woman's satisfactory job performance and the unusually thorough background check conducted by UCFS. The notes also record UCFS personnel officer Debbie Woodworth asking a Reserves Network representative if she "noticed anything peculiar about [the employee]." Woodworth then told the representative,"Employees here have named her Mrs. Doubtfire . . . but they don't say it to her face." Woodworth was also present at a July 10, 2000 meeting with collections manager Brian Davis and UCFS vice president William Ciszozon. At that meeting, Ciszozon asked the woman if she was a man dressed as a woman, and what her gender was because, "by looking at [her], [Ciszozon] can't tell." Ciszozon also wanted to know if she had an operation. When the woman protested the line of questioning, she was told that another employee had complained that "a man dressed as a woman was using the ladies restroom." UCFS notified Reserves of the woman's termination the following day. UCFS was represented by attorney Lee Hutton of Duvin, Cahn, and Hutton of Cleveland, who asserted during initial mediation that the woman was unable to perform the essential functions of the job. Hutton filed a motion to dismiss the case, claiming that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act cannot protect transsexuals. He said a court ruled in a 1984 case, Ulane v. Eastern Airlines, that Congress had a narrow definition of "sex" in mind, excluding transsexuals, when the act was passed. However, Judge Kathleen McDonald O'Malley rejected Hutton's motion, finding that the 1989 U.S. Supreme Court decision Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins says a person cannot be discriminated against for not conforming to the gender stereotype behavior expected by another person or social norms. This was the first time a court allowed a transgender person to sue an employer for discrimination on the basis of sexual stereotype non-conformity, according to Barnabee, who is transgender herself. According to Barnabee, this case, "opens the door a little bit" to protect transgender workers, who otherwise have no discrimination protection. Barnabee has submitted O'Malley's opinion to be published in the Federal Supplement, a collection of opinions used as guidance by federal courts. Barnabee believes facts of the case had merit, too, but said that had a jury found in UCFS's favor, it could have weakened the persuasive value of O'Malley's opinion on future cases. Barnabee stressed that the major success of this case was O'Malley's opinion replacing the old Ulane decision and allowing Title VII to protect transgender people. "It's helpful, too," said Barnabee, "that [O'Malley's court] is part of the Sixth Circuit, which is notoriously conservative." -------- Background on Randi Barnabee. Randi Barnabee is a member of TransFamily Of Cleveland. She is a retired military attorney, licensed in Maryland, admitted to practice law in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, and currently preparing to take the Ohio Bar Exam. Ms. Barnabee's law partner is Deborah Smith, L.P.A.. The focus Ms. Barnabee's federal practice is representing victims of sexual harassment and sex discrimination prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Ms Smith's primary areas of practice are in Estate Planning and Probate (wills, trusts, etc.) and Business Incorporations. They have expanded their practice to include some of the more general areas of law as well. As active members of TransFamily, they are especially attuned to the special needs and circumstances of the GLBT community, and would be happy to work with anyone. If a topic is beyond our expertise, they offer to help locate other attorneys who are likewise GLBT friendly and appropriately experienced to assist. They can be reach at their practice: (330) 467-5000 or by email at: SmithBarnabeeLaw@aol.com From The Cleveland Gay Peoples Chronicle http://www.gaypeopleschronicle.com/stories02/02jul12.htm#story4 Eric Resnick |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -
Gender march organizing meeting set for August 9th - 11th in Atlanta For further information contact rorygould@earthlink.net or sabrinamarcus@yahoo.com. (July 12) The Gender March Exploratory Committee announces a meeting to plan the national gender march on Washington organization. The meeting will be held during the weekend of August 9-11, 2002 in Atlanta, GA at the Sheraton Midtown Atlanta at Colony Square. This meeting is scheduled to decide on an organizational structure, decision-making process, identify volunteers, and plan future meetings. All members of the gender community and our allies who want to work towards having a national march on Washington in 2003 are welcomed to participate regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, national origin, religion, disability, sex, marital status, economic status, and any other differentiating characteristic. This is a follow up to the meeting that was held May 4, 2002 when a cross section of the gender community voted to move forward and plan this historic first for us, as other minority groups have done before. No date has been set for the march, and no other permanent decisions have been made, other than to have the march itself. The upcoming meeting will lead to decision-making bodies, but is not expected to set the march date. An agenda shall be forthcoming. Please pass along this announcement to any interested parties and throughout the gender community. |
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JOIN GLSEN AT OUR NATIONAL CONFERENCE
(Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network Teaching Respect for All in Los Angeles, California October 4 - 6, 2002 Go To www.glsen.org and click on "Events" for more information Tony O'Rourke-Quintana GLSEN - Northeast Field Organizer 121 W. 27th Street, Suite 804 NY, NY 10001 212-727-0135, ext. 110 torourke@glsen.org |
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United Kingdom Transgender Win
In a stunning victory for transsexual legal rights, a grand chamber of 18 judges at the European Court of Human Rights ruled on July 11 that the United Kingdom is in violation of two articles of the European Convention on Human Rights in its treatment of transsexuals. The Court ordered Britain to grant new birth certificates to transsexuals showing acquired gender, and to allow them to marry. The ruling came in two cases, originally filed with the court in 1994 and 1995, one by Christine Goodwin, the other by an anonymous transsexual identified in court papers as I. In both cases, the plaintiffs alleged that Britain's failure to recognize their sex changes through changed legal status had produced significant hardship in their lives, affected job opportunities, limited their right to marry, and subjected them to economic and psychological deprivation. For example, Goodwin argued that the government's refusal to recognize her as a woman did not allow her to retire at 60 with full pension as current British law provides for women, though not for men who must wait until they are 65. (The age differential, a bit of legalized sex discrimination, will end in 2004). Both plaintiffs are post-operative male-to-female transsexuals, who had their surgical gender reassignment supervised and funded by Britain's national health service. But the women were denied new birth certificates even though Britain will issue new driver's licenses to reflect a gender change. Also, a recent British appellate decision found that a marriage between a male-to-female transsexual and a man was void because it was a same-sex marriage. The U.K., which is bound by treaty under the Convention, was found to have violated two of its provisions. Article 8 guarantees the right to respect for private life and forbids interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except where issues of national security, public safety, health, morals, and national economic well-being, the protection of the rights of others, and the prevention of disorder and crime supercede. Article 12 provides that men and women have the right to marry. The court unanimously concluded that both of these articles were violated, with the right of transsexuals to marry logically flowing from their right to be recognized in their acquired gender under Article 8. The court noted past cases in which it had refused to require a state to recognize a sex change, but argued, The Court must have regard to the changing conditions... and respond, for example, to any evolving convergence as to the standards to be achieved A failure by the Court to maintain a dynamic and evolutive approach would indeed risk rendering it a bar to reform or improvement. Turning to the issue of respect for private life, the court ruled that the gender identity of a transsexual is an important aspect of personal identity. A conflict between social reality and law arises which places the transsexual in an anomalous position, in which he or she may experience feelings of vulnerability, humiliation, and anxiety, the Court wrote. The court was particularly struck that Britain's national health service recognizes gender dysphoria as a medical condition treatable through gender reassignment and pays for the necessary therapy, but then the country's administrative structure refuses to follow through and treat the individual as a member of his or her acquired gender. The court decided that the current state of medical knowledge about what causes gender dysphoria was not well established, but that there is an emerging consensus at the level of public policy among European nations to recognize sex changes. Reviewing the situation in Europe, the court noted that out of 37 nations whose laws were analyzed, only four, including the U.K., refused to acknowledge a legal change of sex on a birth certificate, which the court found to be a continuing international trend in favour not only of increased social acceptance of transsexuals but of legal recognition of the new sexual identity of post-operative transsexuals. After concluding that the equities weighed in favor of the plaintiffs, thus requiring a finding of violation under Article 8, the court turned to Article 12 and quickly concluded that the right to marry a man must follow from the requirement that the state recognized a post-operative transsexual as a member of their acquired sex. Responding to the U.K.'s argument that transsexuals retained the right to marry, merely the sex of their partner being circumscribed, the court said that it found that it is artificial to assert that post-operative transsexuals have not been deprived of the right to marry as, according to law, they remain able to marry a person of their former opposite sex. The applicant in this case who lives as a woman, is in a relationship with a man and would only wish to marry a man. She has no possibility of doing so. In the Court's view, she may therefore claim that the very essence of her right to marry has been infringed. Each of the plaintiffs sought damages for economic and psychological injury, as well as substantial legal fees to cover their costs of the proceedings. Here the Court did hand a tiny victory to the U.K., by generally agreeing that the remedy for the plaintiffs should be their entitlement to legal recognition of their acquired gender, and refused to award damages. However, the court did award attorneys fees to each of the plaintiffs, although in amounts somewhat smaller than had been claimed. The ruling of the grand chamber is not further appealable and is fully binding on the U.K. government as a contracting party under the Convention. It provides an important reminder of how the U.S. trails Europe on many policy questions involving sexual minority rights, since there are two significant recent appellate decisions in the U.S., from the Texas Court of Appeals and the Kansas Supreme Court, finding that marriages involving post-operative transsexuals were void as a matter of law, and some U.S. jurisdictions remain opposed to issuing new birth certificates showing acquired gender. The European Court of Human Rights takes a pragmatic approach to these questions, refreshingly free of the ideological constraints that many U.S. judges insist on interposing between transsexuals and full legal equality. ARTHUR S. LEONARD/Gay City News |
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JOIN GLSEN AT OUR NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Teaching Respect for All in Los Angeles, California October 4 - 6, 2002 Go To www.glsen.org and click on "Events" for more information Tony O'Rourke-Quintana Local Chapter Development Specialist 121 W. 27th Street, Suite 804 NY, NY 10001 212-727-0135, ext. 110 torourke@glsen.org |
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Subject: CA assemblywoman targeted for support of placing transgender youth
Group travels to protest foster care bill: Assemblywoman is targeted for her support of plan to place gay or transgender youth in homes sensitive to issues they face. MONTCLAIR - A group that wants state lawmakers to reject a foster care bill because it encourages gays and lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people to become foster parents protested outside Assemblywoman Gloria Negrete McLeod's office Monday. McLeod (D-Chino) intends to support the bill. Calling it "the most dangerous bill of the year," Randy Thomasson, executive director of the Campaign for California Families, said his Sacramento-based organization is making several stops at the offices of state lawmakers this week, hoping to sway their votes. He was joined Monday by 15 protesters. The organization's representatives said they are concerned that it would confuse the sexual identity of underage children because of the sexual orientation of their foster parents and encourage them to adopt the same lifestyle. Thomasson said he was particularly concerned that the bill includes transgender people, which includes transsexuals who identify themselves with the opposite gender, transvestites and sometimes hermaphrodites. "It supports the drag-queen agenda and it supports the sex-change agenda," Thomasson said. Last year, Thomasson's group protested the same-sex domestic partners rights bill, which Gov. Gray Davis signed into law in October. McLeod dismissed the protests, saying the bill is meant to help troubled youths who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender to receive the care of people who are sensitive to issues they are going through. "This is about 'GLBT' youths that are already in foster care and they're really hard to place," McLeod said. "There are many foster parents who really do not, although they have a good conscience, know how to take care or cope with this. Hopefully, they'll go into homes that are more equipped to handle their cases." Thomasson called the bill unnecessary, saying that all youths in the foster care system can choose not to be with a foster parent. If the bill passes, Dale Rose, a pastor with the First Assembly of God Church in Montclair, predicted that many parents statewide would leave the foster care system because they would be forced to teach sexual-orientation issues that they morally oppose. But the bill only calls for sensitivity training to be voluntary, said Bill Wong, chief of staff for Assemblywoman Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park) who wrote the bill."Unfortunately, they've misrepresented the bill," Wong said. Rose, who has taken care of more than a dozen foster children, was at Monday's protest. The protest included speeches by Thomasson, Rose and Verne Teyler, executive director of Hosanna Homes, a foster care agency based in Castro Valley. The protesters then went into McLeod's office to register their complaints against the bill. Matthew Chin, Inland Valley Voice Los Angeles Times, August 13, 2002 Times Mirror Square, Los Angeles, CA, 90053 (Fax: 213-237-7679 or 213-237-5319 ) (E-Mail: letters@latimes.com ) ( http://www.latimes.com ) http://www.latimes.com/tcn/ontario/news/la-ivo-transexual13aug13.story |
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Get political..........
The EZLN, Zapatistas is a leftist revolutionary group in Mexico... The EZLN has around 12,000 troops, 2-3000 of whom are fairly well-armed. There are 11 general demands of the EZLN; they are: work, land, shelter, food, health, education, autonomy, freedom, democracy, justice, and peace. The EZLN are fronted although not dictated by their spokesman ˜Marcos' – a masked revolutionary who has pop star status in Mexico.... Interestingly enough Marcos is a very verbal supporter of gay and transgender rights...so much so that he has openly called for gay and transgender to come and live in Chiapas and help support the general demands of this socialist organization... America is not eager to publicize the Zapatista movement as American has financial stakes in consumerism and making money off the land that was once owned by the indigenus people.... So EZLN is not on TV much here... however in Europe and beyond Marcos is getting a great deal of respect and international acclaim.... Again... he is one of the few ˜politicians' who are worth watching.... Plus he is one of the few who continue to fight for equal rights for ALL in every one of his speeches.... Seek him out...read up..... http://gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/world/070199wo.htm |
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