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Commission's Quaterly Newsletter 2003 Winter Edition Page 1 |
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Legislative Highlights |
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CCHR Testifies Before City Council: Commissioner Patricia Gatling and Deputy Commissioner Cliff Mulqueen testified before the City Council on March 14, 2002, May 10, 2002 and July 25, 2002. The hearings regarded CCHR’s vision for the future and expanding the protection rights of domestic violence victims. Gender Defined: The City Human Rights Law was amended in April 2002 by defining “gender” to include actual or perceived sex as well as a “person’s gender identity, self-image, appearance, behavior or expression, whether or not that gender identity, self-image, appearance, behavior or expression is different from that traditionally associated with the legal sex assigned to that person at birth.” Transgender individuals may now file gender claims under the City Human Rights Law. |
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