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Compiled by GayToday Equality Florida
Last Thursday the St. Petersburg City Council voted 6-2 to approve an amendment to the City's human rights ordinance, which protects people based on sexual orientation, but did not vote on including gender identity and expression. At that public hearing, supportive leaders from civic, neighborhood, advocacy and religious organization filled the room to capacity. Nearly 50 people took time off work for the early morning hearing to tell City Council their commitment to inclusion is unwavering, and that the ordinance is incomplete without gender identity protections.
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St. Petersburg, Florida-- While celebrating the addition of sexual orientation to the
St. Petersburg human rights ordinance, Equality Florida and the entire
25-member coalition of organizations that advocated for change remain
committed to ensuring that gender identity be included in the city's
anti-discrimination law.
