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BREAKING NEWS Victory! Volusia Passes Domestic... ...Partnership Registry. Dear Friend, I've just left Volusia County Hall where moments ago, by a vote of 6-1, the Volusia County Council approved Central Florida's first countywide domestic partnership registry! The registry, which takes effect July 1, 2012, will extend vital legal protections to our families....

Victory: Federal Agency Rules Trans People Protected... NCTE congratulates our colleagues at the Transgender Law Center, who announced a federal workplace rights victory. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ruled in a 5-0 decision. An employer who discriminates against a transgender employee or job applicant because of the person’s gender identity is illegal...

Transgender Breakthrough EEOC ruling that gender-identity discrimination is covered by Title VII is a ''sea change'' that opens the doors to employment protection for transgender Americans An employer who discriminates against an employee or applicant on the basis of the person's gender identity is violating the prohibition on sex discrimination...

LGBT High School Opens in Phoenix PHOENIX - The Valley now has a high school geared specifically towards lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender students. It's the first of its kind in Arizona and one of only a handful in the entire country. Tyler, a junior at the school, recently enrolled at Q High , seeking a more tolerant environment to go...

LAPD Announces Historic New Trans Guidelines & Policies A controlled giddiness at making history filled the theater at the LAPD Chief's LGBTQ Forum Thursday night, April 12 at The Village. Since the early 1990s when Trans-gender Menace activist Shirley Bushnell seemed to attend every SoCal community meeting she could pushing for simple respect, local LGBT activists have advocated...

Exciting News from Miami-Dade County

Posted by Jodi Ihme, T-HOUSE Coordinator | Posted on 04-10-2011

Category : Trans Youth

Tags: Anti-Bullying Policy, Florida Safe Schools Coalition, gender expression, gender identity, LGBT, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, sexual orientation, student, Trans Youth

4th Largest School District in the Nation Adds Gender Identity to Anti-Bullying Policy Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the fourth largest school district in the nation with 345,000 students, has added gender identity to its harassment and bullying ordinance. Equality Florida and the members of our Florida Safe Schools Coalition have worked for more than a decade to expand these protections in Miami and across our state.

With this latest victory, 1.55 million students, nearly 60% of Florida’s school population, are now protected from bullying based on sexual orientation and gender identity – ranking Florida 4th in the nation for the number of students with LGBT protections

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