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Our Work Legislative Advocacy MA: Ask Your Rep to Make Transgender Rights a Priority

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GLAD may be best known for its precedent-setting litigation in the courts, but as New England's foremost legal organization working on matters of lgbt civil rights and the rights of people with HIV, GLAD's unique legal expertise is indispensable to legislative efforts and other matters of public policy as well.

MA: Ask Your Rep to Make Transgender Rights a Priority

A new poll just released by Lake Research Partners shows that 76% of likely voters in Massachusetts, including 81% of women, support H 1728 An Act Relative to Gender-Based Discrimination and Hate Crimes. These results prove what we all knew all along; ending harmful discrimination against the transgender community is a Massachusetts value and ought to be made a priority of the state legislature.

We need you to ask your Representative to make this a priority now. Transgender Civil Rights cannot wait any longer.

An Act Relative to Gender-Based Discrimination and Hate Crimes is currently being held in the Judiciary Committee, with no set date to be released for a full vote in the legislature. Please take a moment to contact your Representative, and ask them to call on House Speaker DeLeo to make An Act Relative to Gender-Based Discrimination and Hate Crimes a priority this year.

Click here to send an email, or to be even more effective, make a phone call today.

Representatives and their staffs tell us that calls and emails make all the difference! You can find out who your Representative is here and find their phone number here.

You can use this message when you make your call:

My name is _____ and I am a proud resident of (your city). I am calling to ask you as my Representative to contact House Speaker DeLeo to urge him to make H 1728, the transgender rights bill, a priority this year. I can be reached at _______ (give your phone number). Thank you.

Thank you for supporting equality for all Massachusetts citizens.

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