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MTPC Community Survey 2009
Please take a moment to fill out our community survey – help us serve you better. Your input will help us to better serve you and our community. This survey is intended for transgender people and non-transgender family, partners, friends, and allies of the transgender community who live, work, go to school, or are in some way connected to the state of Massachusetts. All the information provided will be used to assess the current state of MTPC programming and services, as well as what resources we can provide for our community in the future. We really appreciate you taking the time to give us feedback!
Survey can be found at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=dYRIHw5hR_2f0w1manp_2b9GsQ_3d_3d
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104 Legislators Co-sponsoring An Act Relative to Gender-Based Discrimination and Hate Crimes!
Today, there is a majority of legislators in both the House and Senate supporting this bill, supporting non-discrimination for transgender people of Massachusetts. Our lead sponsors, Representatives Carl Sciortino and Byron Rushing on the House side, with Senator Ben Downing in the lead in the Senate have helped to build support and momentum for equality.
Through MTPC’s community organizing efforts over the last three years of the transgender and allied communities we have been able to educate and advocate with legislators and policy makers across the state. Today, we are beginning to see the fruits of those labors.
The Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition applauds the many policy makers who support “An Act Relative to Gender-Based Discrimination and Hate Crimes” including:
* Governor Deval Patrick
* State Attorney General Martha Coakley
* Congressman Barney Frank
* Suffolk County Sheriff Andrea Cabral
* Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino
* Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons
* Northampton Mayor Clare Higgins
* Boston City Council
* and today… 104 Legislative Co-Sponsors
I am thrilled of the work we all have done as a community to get to this point. This is and will continue to be a community effort and there is still more to do. This is a victory and we should all be proud of the work we have done to advocate for ourselves and our loved ones.
If your legislator(s) co-sponsored An Act Relative to Gender Based Discrimination please a take a moment and say “Thank you” either via email, snail mail, or phone call. Thanking our legislators is important. If your legislators are not co-sponsors at this time, then you should call and make an appointment to talk with them about the importance of this bill and how it affects your life to not have protections.
This bill is also supported by our Transgender Civil Rights Coalition Partners including MassEquality, Mass Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus, ACLU of Massachusetts, GLAD, MassNOW, NASW MA Chapter, Mass Lesbian and Gay Bar Association and the other 70 plus local organizations and national organizations such as HRC, NGLTF, and NCTE.
Thank you all again for all of your hard work and your support of MTPC to make this happen.
Gunner Scott
Director
Thank You, Boston City Council
MTPC extends its sincere appreciation to the Boston City Council, on behalf of all transgender people in Boston and across the state of Massachusetts, for their unanimous resolution supporting the passage of “An Act Relative to Gender Based Discrimination and Hate Crimes”. We are grateful for the Council’s willingness to stand up for the rights of all those targeted for discrimination, harassment and violence based on their gender, including transgender people.
The Council passed an ordinance in 2002 enacting gender identity and expression protections for the City of Boston, and this strong show of support for similar protections on a statewide basis is testimony to the success and the justice of these protections. We hope that our state leaders will follow this wise example and extend those protections to all our our state’s citizens. Read the rest of this entry »
RMV Releases Gender Designation Change Form
The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles has released the new Gender Change Form to allow people to change the gender designation on their driver’s license or state-issued ID. The new policy requires that the Gender Designation Change Form be signed by the individual as well as a licensed Physician, Therapist or Counselor, or Psychiatric Social Worker. See MTPC’s driver’s license page for more info on RMV gender and name change. Read the rest of this entry »