{"id":2059,"date":"2014-02-28T13:57:10","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T18:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2014-02-28T13:57:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T18:57:10","slug":"senate-strengthens-trans-equality-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=2059","title":{"rendered":"Senate Strengthens Trans Equality Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/MCTE-corrected-logo-300x111.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2060 aligncenter\" alt=\"MCTE-corrected-logo-300x111\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/MCTE-corrected-logo-300x111.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"111\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mdtransequality.org\/who-we-are\">Logo for the Coalition of 44 Members<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/mgaleg.maryland.gov\/webmga\/frmMain.aspx?pid=billpage&amp;tab=subject3&amp;id=SB0212&amp;stab=01&amp;ys=2014rs\">Fairness for All Marylanders Act of 2014<\/a>, also known as the Transgender Equality bill, passed second reader in the Senate today by a voice vote. Sen. Rich Madaleno (D 18-Montgomery) is the lead sponsor and Sen. Jamie Raskin (D 20-Montgomery) is the floor leader, as he is on the Judicial Proceedings Committee and a strong supporter of the bill.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was <a href=\"http:\/\/mgaleg.maryland.gov\/2014rs\/amds\/bil_0002\/SB0212_90372102.pdf\">strengthened by an amendment<\/a> thanks to the hard work of a number of senators, including Sen. Catherine Pugh (D 40-Baltimore City) and Sen. Joseph Getty (R 5-Baltimore and Carroll) as well as Madaleno and Raskin. The Senate <a href=\"http:\/\/mgaleg.maryland.gov\/2014rs\/amds\/bil_0002\/SB0212_90372102.pdf\">adopted an amendment sponsored by Getty <\/a>that adopts a broader definition of gender identity so it includes individuals beyond those who have chosen to have and can afford gender reassignment surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/mdtransequality.org\/\">Maryland Coalition for Trans Equality<\/a> has strongly advocated for the bill. <a href=\"http:\/\/mdtransequality.org\/who-we-are\">Its members include<\/a> Equality Maryland, ACLU of Maryland, CASA of Maryland, SEIU, Jews United for Justice, Baltimore Black Pride, and Maryland NOW among the many groups who have allied to support the bill.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logo for the Coalition of 44 Members The Fairness for All Marylanders Act of 2014, also known as the Transgender Equality bill, passed second reader in the Senate today by a voice vote. Sen. Rich Madaleno (D 18-Montgomery) is the lead sponsor and Sen. Jamie Raskin (D 20-Montgomery) is the floor leader, as he is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=2059\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senate Strengthens Trans Equality Bill<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[297,142,39],"tags":[472,471,474,1502,473,470,1485],"class_list":["post-2059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equality-maryland","category-senate","category-transgender-rights","tag-catherine-pugh","tag-equality-maryland-2","tag-gender-identity","tag-jamie-raskin","tag-joseph-getty","tag-maryland-coalition-for-trans-equality","tag-rich-madaleno"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-xd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}