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After Legalizing Infant Murder, NY Signs Bill Making ‘Gender Identity’ Discrimination a Hate Crime

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AUBURN PUB – Calling it an “emotional day,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday signed bills that provide protections to transgender New Yorkers and bans the use of conversion therapy on children. 

The conversion therapy ban and the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, which adds gender expression and identity as protected classes in the state’s human rights and hate crimes laws, have been priorities for the LGBTQ community. The bills were blocked by Republicans when the GOP controlled the state Senate.

Now that Democrats hold majorities in both houses of the state Legislature, the bills were among the first passed by the Assembly and Senate this year

“Today is a day we have been waiting and fighting for for a very long time,” said Glennda Testone, executive director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center in New York City, which hosted the signing ceremony. 

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With the ban on conversion therapy, New York becomes the 15th to prohibit the controversial technique. Supporters of conversion therapy believe it can change an individual’s sexual orientation. But health professionals and medical groups have denounced the practice, mainly because of concerns that it’s harmful to young people. 

GENDA, like the conversion therapy ban, was a bill introduced nearly two decades ago to bolster rights for transgender gender nonconforming people. Opponents labeled it “the bathroom bill” because of unfounded fears that men would take advantage of the protections to dress as women and enter women’s restrooms. 

The new law aims to prevent discrimination against transgender New Yorkers. The U.S. Transgender Survey found 30 percent of transgender or gender nonconforming Americans were denied a promotion, harassed at their workplace or fired from their jobs because on the basis of their gender identity. 

Nearly a quarter of respondents in the same survey said they faced housing discrimination. 

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