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With the recent news going around about Michele De Lafreniere, I have received inquiries wondering if that "Michele" was me. I am proud to say that it is not. De Lafreniere seems to be doing more to hurt the cause of the Valley's transgendered than it is to help. Here in Phoenix, we currently have no anti-discrimination laws in the public sector that protect gender identity. Tucson does. More and more states, even New Mexico has statewide protections. Even in culturally diverse cities like Tempe, those protections do not exist for citizens. However, the City of Tempe government does include gender identity in their anti-discrimination policy for city employees. In the private sector, companies like Microsoft, Google, Intel, US Airways and American Airlines specifically have protections written in their corporate policies.
Now, there is a lot of public confusion about transgendered people mainly because the media seems to...
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