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Legislation to protect gay and lesbian Americans that passed the House last week fell short for transgender people and their advocates, who wanted “gender identity” protections that got cut from the original version.
Safe levels of ionizing radiation from products such as smoke detectors and mammograms are based on a male health subject. Health advocates want statistics based more on fetuses, girls and women to take over as the model.
As the Episcopal Church comes under intense pressure to back off from its approval of same-sex unions, the ERA campaign faces a similar schism. Julie R. Enszer says that ERA and marriage equality go hand-in-hand and must stand firmly together.