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File #: 196357    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Ordained
File created: 3/10/2014 In control: City Council
On agenda: 3/13/2014 Final action: 5/22/2014
Enactment date: 5/22/2014 Enactment #: 196357
Title: That the city's Human Rights Policy at Ordinance 2-237 be amended by adding the words "gender identity and expression," to protect transgender individuals from discrimination.
Sponsors: Rebekah L. Gewirtz, Dennis M. Sullivan
Code sections: Ordinance Not Zoning -
Attachments: 1. Ordinance adding Gender Identity and Expression to Human Rights Policy

  Agenda Text

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That the city's Human Rights Policy at Ordinance 2-237 be amended by adding the words "gender identity and expression," to protect transgender individuals from discrimination.

 

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Official Text

  That the Somerville Code of Ordinances be amended by adding the words "gender identity and expression" to Part II, Chapter 2, Article V, Division 6, Sec. 2-237, as follows:

 

No person in our city shall be unlawfully discriminated against in matters of housing, employment, education, contracts, purchasing or public accommodations, on the basis of: age, ancestry, citizenship, color, disability, economic status, ethnicity, family/marital status, gender, military status, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, or source of income.