Dallas Community College District Votes to Add Trans Protections

By Winston Gieseke

LGBT community activists celebrate after DCCCD X390 (PERMISSION IN EMAIL) | ADVOCATE.COM
LBGT activists celebrate in Dallas

During their monthly meeting Tuesday, trustees of the Dallas County Community College District voted to amend their nondiscrimination policies to include protections for gender identity and expression.

The Dallas Voice reports that of the three policies amended, two covered students and one protected employees.

At the meeting, five people spoke on behalf of the issue, after which district board chair Jerry Prater said, “We have gotten your message loud and clear.”

The Dallas district is Texas’s third community college to add protections for transgender people.

Read the full article here.

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