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WORKING FOR TRANSGENDER JUSTICE
Basic Rights Oregon is committed to advancing equality for transgender Oregonians. We recognize that within the LGBT rights movement, transgender people have been historically excluded—and we know that transgender members of our community face unique barriers to accessing accurate documentation, appropriate health care, housing and employment. That’s why we support trans-inclusive policies, and why we have committed to lead campaigns to increase the safety and wellbeing of transgender Oregonians.
CURRENT WORK
In 2009, Basic Rights Oregon will convene a working group to focus on trans-specific policy campaigns. The working group, made up of activists, community leaders, policy experts, and attorneys, will develop a series of plans that will guide Basic Rights Oregon’s transgender policy work for years to come. Stay tuned for ways to get involved in late 2009!
Basic Rights Oregon also works with United ENDA to ensure that the federal Employment Nondiscrimination ACT (ENDA) passes, and that bans discrimination based on gender identity and expression as well as sexual orientation. In the last year alone, Basic Rights Oregon activists met with three members of Oregon’s congressional delegation to urge their support of a fully inclusive ENDA.
HISTORY
In 2001, the Trans Advisory Group (TAG) formed to advise the tactics, strategy, and goals of Basic Rights Oregon. For several years, TAG members played critical roles in much of BRO’s work, and worked to raise awareness and support of trans communities.
Between 2005 and 2007, activists across Oregon worked especially hard to pass transgender-inclusive nondiscrimination ordinances in cities and counties across the state. Basic Rights Action Teams (BRATs) in Corvallis and Washington County worked tirelessly to pass local ordinances banning discrimination based on gender identity and expression. Plus, hardworking local activists successfully passed an ordinance in Wasco County.
All of this led to a successful statewide campaign in the 2007 legislative session to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity across the state. Today, gay and transgender Oregonians can breathe easy knowing that our rights to housing, employment, access to education, and public accommodations are secure, and that Oregon law finally reflects Oregonians’ shared value of basic fairness.
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