Sponsors
The legislators listed below sponsored the Transgender Equal Rights Act. If your Representative or Senator are not listed here, please ask them to declare their support for this enacted bill which protects freedom of gender identity for everybody. If either or both are listed here, let them know that their support is appreciated. They’ve gotten many calls from our opponents, and it’s important to give them the support they need to stand strong for us.
House Co-Sponsors: (52 out of 160) |
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| Representative | District | Town(s) |
| Carl Sciortino, Jr. Lead sponsor | 34th Middlesex | Somerville, Medford |
| Byron Rushing Lead sponsor | 9th Suffolk | Boston |
| Denise Andrews | 2nd Franklin | Erving, Gill, Greenfield, Orange, Warwick, Athol |
| Brian M. Ashe | 2nd Hampden | East Longmeadow, Hampden, Longmeadow, Monson, Springfield |
| Cory Atkins | 14th Middlesex | Acton, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord |
| Ruth B. Balser | 12th Middlesex | Newton |
| Jennifer Benson | 37th Middlesex | Acton, Boxborough, Harvard Lancaster, Lurenberg, Shirley |
| Paul Brodeur | 32th Middlesex | Melrose, Wakefield |
| William N. Brownsberger | 24th Middlesex | Arlington, Belmont, Cambridge |
| Chrsitine E. Canavan | 10th Plymouth | Easton, Brockton, West Bridgewater |
| Cheryl A. Coakley-Rivera | 10th Hampden | Springfield |
| Carolyn C. Dykema | 8th Middlesex | Holliston, Hopkinton, Medway, Southborough, Westborough |
| Lori Ehrlich | 8th Essex | Lynn, Marblehead, Swampscott |
| Ann-Margaret Ferrante | 5th Essex | Essex, Gloucester, Rockport |
| Linda Dorcena Forry | 12th Suffolk | Milton, Boston |
| Gloria L. Fox | 7th Suffolk | Boston |
| Sean Garballey | 23rd Middlesex | Arlington, Medford |
| Jonathan Hecht | 29th Middlesex | Watertown, Cambridge |
| Carlos Tony Henriquez | 5th Suffolk | Boston |
| Kate Hogan | 3rd Middlesex | Bolton, Hudson, Maynard, Stow |
| Kevin G. Honan | 17th Suffolk | Boston |
| John D. Keenan | 7th Essex | Salem |
| Kay Khan | 11th Middlesex | Newton |
| Jay R. Kaufman | 15th Middlesex | Arlington, Lexington, Woburn |
| Peter V. Kocot | 1st Hampshire | Montgomery, Hatfield, Southampton, Westhampton, Northampton |
| Stephen Kulik | 1st Franklin | Conway, Deerfield, Leverett, Montague, New Salem, Shutesbury, Sunderland, Wendell, Whately, Belchertown, Chesterfield, Goshen, Huntington, Pelham, Williamsburg, Worthington |
| Jason Lewis | 31st Middlesex | Stoneham, Winchester |
| David Paul Linsky | 5th Middlesex | Natick, Sherborn, Millis |
| Elizabeth A. Malia | 11th Suffolk | Boston |
| Paul W. Mark | 2nd Berkshire | Ashfield, Becket, Bernardston, Buckland, Cheshire, Colrain, Cummington, Dalton, Hancock, Hinsdale, Lanesborough, Leyden, Middlefield, New Ashford, Northfield, Peru, Plainfield, Pittsfield, Richmond, Shelburne, Washington, Windsor |
| Aaron M.Michlewitz | 3rd Suffolk | Boston |
| Michael J. Moran | 18th Suffolk | Brookline, Boston |
| James J. O’Day | 14th Worcester | West Boylston, Worcester |
| Sarah K. Peake | 4th Barnstable | Chatham, Eastham, Harwich, Orleans, Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet |
| Alice H. Peisch | 14th Norfolk | Natick, Weston, Wellesley |
| Denise Provost | 27th Middlesex | Somerville |
| Kathi-Anne Reinstein | 16th Suffolk | Saugus, Chelsea, Revere |
| Jeffrey Sánchez | 15th Suffolk | Brookline, Boston |
| Tom Sannicandro | 7th Middlesex | Ashland, Framingham |
| John W. Scibak | 2nd Hampshire | Easthampton, Hadley, South Hadley |
| Stephen Stat Smith | 28th Middlesex | Everett, Malden |
| Frank I. Smizik | 15th Norfolk | Brookline |
| Theodore C. Speliotis | 13th Essex | Danvers Topsfield, Peabody |
| Thomas M. Stanley | 9th Middlesex | Lexington, Waltham |
| Ellen Story | 3rd Hampshire | Amherst, Granby |
| Benjamin Swan | 11th Hampden | Springfield |
| Timothy J. Toomey, Jr. | 26th Middlesex | Cambridge, Somerville |
| Cleon H. Turner | 1st Barnstable | Brewster, Dennis, Yarmouth |
| James E. Vallee | 10th Norfolk | Franklin, Medway |
| Steven M. Walsh | 11th Essex | Lynn, Nahant |
| Martha M. Walz | 8th Suffolk | Cambridge, Boston |
| Alice K. Wolf | 25th Middlesex | Cambridge |
Senate Co-Sponsors: (16 out of 40) |
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| Senator | District | Town(s) |
| Benjamin B. Downing Lead sponsor | Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin | Adams, Alford, Ashfield, Becket, Charlemont, Cheshire, Chesterfield, Clarksburg, Conway, Cummington, Dalton, Egremont, Florida, Goshen, Great Barrington, Hancock, Hawley, Heath, Hinsdale, Huntington, Lanesborough, Lee, Lenox, Middlefield, Monroe, Monterey, Mount Washington, New Ashford, New Marlborough, North Addams, Otis, Peru, Pittsfield, Plainfield, Richmond, Rowe, Sandisfield, Savoy, Sheffield, Stockbridge, Tyringham, Washington, West Stockbridge, Westhampton, Williamsburg, Williamstown, Windsor, Worthington |
| Sonia Chang-Diaz Lead sponsor | 2nd Suffolk | Boston |
| Harriette L. Chandler | 1st Worcester | Worcester, Berlin, Boylston, Clinton, Holden, Northborough, Paxton, Princeton, West Boylston |
| Katherine Clark | Middlesex and Essex | Malden, Melrose, Wakefield, Stoneham, Reading, Lynnefield |
| Cynthia Stone Creem | 1st Middlesex, Norfolk | Newton, Brookline, Wellesley |
| Sal N. DiDomenico | Middlesex, Suffolk, Essex | Cambridge, Everett, Somerville, Boston, Chelsea, Revere, Saugus |
| Kenneth J. Donelly | 4th Middlesex | Woburn, Arlington, Billerica, Burlington, Lexington |
| Eileen Donoghue | First Middlesex | Lowell, Dunstable, Groton, Pepperell, Tyngsborough, Westford |
| James B. Eldridge | Middlesex, Worcester | Marlborough, Acton, Ayer, Boxborough, Hudson, Littleton, Maynard, Shirley, Stow, Sudbury, Harvard, Northborough, Southborough, Westborough |
| Susan C. Fargo | 3rd Middlesex | Waltham, Bedford, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord, Lexington, Lincoln, Sudbury, Weston |
| Patricia D. Jehlen | 2nd Middlesex | Medford, Somerville, Woburn, Winchester |
| Thomas M. McGee | 3rd Essex, Middlesex | Lynn, Marblehead, Nahant, Saugus, Swampscott, Melrose |
| Anthony W. Petruccelli | 1st Suffolk, Middlesex | Boston, Revere, Winthrop, Cambridge |
| Stanley C. Rosenberg | Hampshire, Franklin | Northampton, Amherst, Belchertown, Hadley, Hatfield, Pelham and South Hadley, Bernardston, Buckland, Colrain, Deerfield, Erving, Gill, Greenfield, Leverett, Leyden, Montague, New Salem, Northfield, Shelburne, Shutesbury, Sunderland, Wendell, Whately |
| Karen E. Spilka | 2nd Middlesex, Norfolk | Ashland, Framingham, Holliston, Hopkinton, Natick, Franklin, Medway |
| Daniel Wolf | Cape, Islands | Barnstable, Brewster, Chatham, Dennis, Eastham, Harwich, Mashpee, Orleans, Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet, Yarmouth, Aquinnah, Chilmark, Edgartown, Gosnold, Oak Bluffs, Tisbury, West Tisbury, Nantucket |
