Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: The Judiciary Committee has passed House Bill 5597

Thursday, April 06, 2006

The Judiciary Committee has passed House Bill 5597

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Dear Diana,
The Judiciary Committee has passed House Bill 5597

An Act Concerning Discrimination. The bill will now move forward through other committees on its way to the House and Senate.

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WHAT IS HB 5597, AN ACT CONCERNING DISCRIMINATION?

HB 5597 clarifies and updates Connecticut’s non-discrimination laws to ensure that they clearly and uniformly protect all people regardless of their gender identity or expression by simply adding the phrase “gender identity and expression”, as defined in Connecticut’s “Hate Crime law”, to all statutes that address discrimination.
From both a priori and empirical studies it is well known that gender non-conforming people experience widespread discrimination in Connecticut. Your support of this bill is vital and is needed to protect transgender and gender non-conforming individuals from being fired, denied basic housing, denied credit and most basic services.
Currently, a number of major Connecticut Corporations (e.g. Aetna, IBM, Pfizer, Xerox, Chubb) as well as small businesses have explicit policies prohibiting discrimination based on ones gender identity and expression as well as employing Transgender individuals.

PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LEGISLATOR TODAY by CLICKING HERE!

YOUR VOICE MATTERS... FORWARD THIS EMAIL to your friends and loved ones. Every call makes a difference!

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View HB 5597 -

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To Learn More...
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GLAD Fact Sheet on the HB 5597... -

Connecticut TransAdvocacy Coalition - CTAC

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Transgender Civil Rights

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1 comment:

Lisa4/7/06, 9:55 PM
My partner works for GE, and I don't know what their official stance is on transgender discrimintation, but I am pleased to say they offer domestic partner benefits. I'll be doing some research...
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