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A long debate ended early Tuesday morning when Gainesville City Commissioners voted to pass an Anti- Discrimination Ordinance for transgendered people... Commissioners voted four to three. The ordinance is mostly addressing housing and employment discrimination, but the part of the ordinance that created much controversy; allowing transgender people to use whichever restroom they wanted in public settings. Now business owners are left with a lot of questions that really are not being answered. http://tinyurl.com/2gfvgr

Gainesville Controversial Transgender Bathroom Ordinance A controversial ordinance dealing with transgendered people and their right to use the bathroom of their choosing will come before Gainesville's City Commission on Monday, January 28, 2008. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2v3hvv">http://tinyurl.com/2v3hvv</a>

United Methodist clergy in Baltimore are asking for the denomination's highest legal authority to review a bishop's decision to reappoint a transgender pastor to lead a city congregation. As Jessica Kartalija reports for CBS affiliate WJZ, Bishop John R. Schol decided last week to continue the appointment of the Rev. Drew Phoenix as pastor of St. John's United Methodist Church. Phoenix, 48, has led St. John's for nearly five years. In the past year, he changed his name from Ann Gordon and received medical treatment to become a man. The Methodist church bans sexually active gay clergy but does not have any rules about transgender pastors. <a href="http://cbs11tv.com/religion/local_story_148081624.html">http://cbs11tv.com/religion/local_story_148081624.html</a>

Today Joe Solmonese released a video celebrating today's Senate passage of the hate crimes legislation. The passage of the hate crimes bill which marks the first time a trans-inclusive piece of federal legislation has ever passed both chambers of Congress... <a href="http://www.hrcbackstory.org/2007/09/joe-solmonese-r.html">http://www.hrcbackstory.org/2007/09/joe-solmonese-r.html</a>

HRC President Joe Solmonese speaks about the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), September 14, 2007 to a transgender defined (transgender people, their significant others, freinds, and family members) audience at the Southern Comfort Conference (Atlanta, Georgia). There were 871 transgender defined members in the audience. (more)

Two transgender men say they're the victims of discrimination after they were kicked out of a mall for allegedly using the wrong restroom. Simon Adriane and Sean Brochin were both born female but consider themselves male. http://www.komotv.com/news/9654897.html

Activists from across the U.S. descended on the HRC fundraising dinner in Washington DC on Saturday, October 6 2007. They were protesting the HRC decision NOT to oppose a newly introduced version of the "Employment Non-Discrimination Act" (ENDA) that was stripped of the language which would have protected transgender people. <a href="http://www.ifge.org/Article351.phtml">http://www.ifge.org/Article351.phtml</a>

On News 12 Westchester, Joann Prinzivalli ,of the New York Transgender Rights Organization (NYTRO) , comments on a recent drag show by Westchester County Legislators. (<a href="http://www.news12.com/WC/topstories/article?id=212990#">http://www.news12.com/WC/topstories/article?id=212990#</a>)