Transgender Non-Discrimination Rights Meeting in Cambridge

I’m not a big activist really. I much prefer welcoming people to my home, making a nice meal with them, sharing a laugh and our lives. That’s as good as it needs to get really. However, the reality is that if you are transgender then you may experience discrimination at some point. I think all of us just want acceptance – not special status or distinct privilege, just acceptance for who we are as men and women and then to go about our lives. Still, discrimination towards transgender folks is real and hence alot of good work is being done out there about that. An update on such work is being held on Thursday, June 22nd at 7pm at MIT in the Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, Room 32-155.

Matt Forman and other staff of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force will be presenting data from the Task Force’s national polling on support for transgender-inclusive non-discrimination laws. There will be a discussion afterwards on the status of:

• Transgender rights movement at the local, state, and national level.
• What laws are passing in other parts of the country?
• What is happening with introduction of a transgender-inclusive Federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act?
• What efforts are underway in Massachusetts to pass meaningful statewide protections?
• What are ways that we can all engage to fight discrimination against transgender people everywhere?

On the Red Line Kendall Square stop, directions: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=32.
For more information visit www.masstpc.org or call 617-983-0219.

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