Progress in Washington [State]
File under "Occasional Progress Despite Lunatic Religious Extremists":
Transgender individuals will now enjoy the same civil-rights protections as other minorities under legislation passed by the Metropolitan King County Council Monday.
The council added gender identity to laws already prohibiting discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations based on sexual orientation, sex, race and religion.
The legislation will protect transsexuals, transvestites and any other individuals with a gender identity that differs from their sex assigned at birth.
[Sharon Pian Chan, "Civil-rights protection OK'd for transgender individuals", Seattle Times, 28 March 2006.]
(First seen at Pam's House Blend.)