Mayor Bart Peterson expanded the city hiring policy to include protection for transgender employees, reissuing an earlier executive order last Friday.Baby steps. Hoosiers. I know this is a pretty big deal for us, since we've still got homobigoted "Christian" assholes roaming the streets with their hymn-singing children, burning gay flags, and carrying signs announcing "Fags Die, God Laughs," so protecting gays for a change is a good, solid start. Perhaps soon, we can talk about not reviving the proposed anti-gay and assisted pregnancy legislation. And after that, maybe we can start taking down confederate flags, k?
Including the phrase "gender identity" in the policy that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation corrected an oversight from the original executive order issued in 2004, he said. The change brings the city's policy in line with the state policy adopted by Gov. Joe Kernan and kept in place by Gov. Mitch Daniels.
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Several advocacy groups supporting gay rights praised the mayor for recognizing the value of all employees, including Indiana Equality and Stonewall Democrats.
Transgender Protection in Indy
Good job, Indy:
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