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But It IS Okay For Trans People NOT To Have The Same Rights As Gays When It Comes To Freedom From Employment Discrimination? [UPDATED]

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In Hawaii… of course it is! Gay rights supporters said being homosexual is not a choice, and gay citizens deserve the same legal rights as everyone else when it comes to marriage. But trans people… and freedom from employment discrimination…………..? Crickets, I hear crickets! And I smell the underside of yet another bus: The state Senate on Friday approved Senate Bill 232, relating to Civil Unions, at its regular daily session. The bill says unmarried, unrelated couples may have a judge or clergy solemnize their civil union, which will provide the same responsibilities and benefits of marriage under state law. The bill passed the full Senate 19-6. … Gov. Neil Abercrombie has promised to sign whatever civil unions legislation is approved. Abercrombie has said he it is a simple issue of civil rights. “The stars are aligned from here to the fifth floor,” Majority Leader Sen. Brickwood Galuteria said. Gov.

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Community significance

“But It IS Okay For Trans People NOT To Have The Same Rights As Gays When It Comes To Freedom From Employment Discrimination? [UPDATED]” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to law and civil rights, while also engaging transgender identity and history. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2011 at Transadvocate.com, “But It IS Okay For Trans People NOT To Have The Same Rights As Gays When It Comes To Freedom From Employment Discrimination? [UPDATED]” provides dated evidence of how law and civil rights was being argued in relation to transgender identity and history. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is labor and employment policy and civil rights and anti-discrimination. It links that institutional frame to law and civil rights and transgender identity and history, 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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Themes

  1. 1
    Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    100%
  2. 2
    Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    37%
  3. 3
    Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    29%
  4. 4
    Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    20%
  5. 5
    Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    16%
  6. 6
    Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    9%

Academic framing

  1. 1100%

Editorial function

Relationship among the ranked article themes Separate but related
Transgender identity and history
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Labor, economics, and institutions
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Family and relationships
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Public policy and governance
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Culture, identity, and representation
Law and civil rightsRank 1
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This article appeared 2 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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Kat

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Shares registered themes including Law and civil rights, Transgender identity and history, Family and relationships.

Marti Abernathey

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Shares registered themes including Law and civil rights, Transgender identity and history, Family and relationships.

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