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Monica Roberts’ Speech To Houston City Council

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Speech To Houston City Council January 7, 2014 By Monica Roberts Happy New Year and good afternoon to you Mayor Parker, distinguished members of City Council, and my fellow Houstonians. I am Monica Roberts, a proud native Houstonian who grew up and resides in District D. I’m standing at this podium today because I’m one of the people that Mayor Parker talked about in her inauguration speech last week and was inspired by it to do so. As a transgender resident of this city, I’m keenly aware of the fact I’m not covered in this city’s current NDO and don’t have the human rights coverage other Houstonians take for granted. I stand here before you today to humbly ask on behalf of myself and other trans Houstonians that when you take up the issue of crafting a comprehensive non-discrimination ordinance that adds sexual orientation and gender identity to protections most

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Community significance

“Monica Roberts’ Speech To Houston City Council” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging law and civil rights. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning transgender identity and history. Published in 2014 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how law and civil rights was framed at that moment.

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The article’s strongest policy connection is public accommodations and facilities. It links that institutional frame to transgender identity and history and law and civil rights, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus

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Monica Roberts

Cristan Williams · collective-demo.transhouston.com · February 16, 2014

Monica Roberts’ Speech To Houston City Council

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