{"id":2225,"date":"2015-11-08T15:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T21:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2015-11-08T08:20:13","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T14:20:13","slug":"governor-cuomo-adds-transgender-protections-in-new-york-through-executive-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2225","title":{"rendered":"Governor Cuomo adds transgender protections in New York through executive action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York said that he will use executive action to provide protections for transgender people in speech given last week. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/23\/nyregion\/governor-andrew-cuomo-new-york-transgender-rights.html?_r=0\">New York Times:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"291\" data-total-count=\"684\">The governor, addressing the crowd at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, said he would direct the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhr.ny.gov\/\">State Division of Human Rights<\/a> to issue regulations that extend protections against discrimination found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhr.ny.gov\/law\">a 1945 law<\/a> to cover gender identity, transgender status and gender dysphoria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"286\" data-total-count=\"970\">Mr. Cuomo said the move was overdue, noting that transgender people had been left out of previous antidiscrimination laws protecting gay and bisexual men and women. ?The law left out the T, so to speak,? he said, adding, ?That was not right, it was not fair, and it was not legal.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Watch his remarks to the Empire State Pride Agenda below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Govenor Cuomo introduces regulations to protect transgender New Yorkers from discrimination.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dioz_I9EomA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York said that he will use executive action to provide protections for transgender people in speech given last week. Via New York Times: The governor, addressing the crowd at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, said he would direct the State Division of Human Rights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[469,470,96],"class_list":["post-2225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-executive-action","tag-lgbt-protection","tag-lgbt-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}