On last night’s CBS Late Show with David Letterman, the host announced Amanda Simpson’s historic appointment to a Commerce Department post and revealed that she is transgender, displaying a photograph of her. The show’s announcer, Alan Kalter, then feigned “trans panic,†implying he had some prior relationship with Simpson but was not aware of her [...]
In a move that puts the country’s largest employer in the mainstream of fair workplace policies, the New York Times reports today that the federal government’s job site (www.usajobs.gov) now makes clear the government’s policy of non-discrimination on the basis of gender identity. The change is a follow-up to President Obama’s memorandum in June that [...]
In striking votes of 67 to 3 in the House and 29 to 3 in the Senate, yesterday the Rhode Island legislature overrode Gov. Carcieri’s veto of a bill that would allow same-sex partners the authority to make funeral arrangements for their deceased loved ones. Mark Goldberg had testified to the struggle he faced when the [...]
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