From: Lisa4July@aol.com
To: McGuiremaur@aol.com
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 6:52 AM
Subject: Fwd: [Fwd: Fw: News from NJ]

In a message dated 6/17/2007 9:50:58 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
purguy@verizon.net writes:

Today, June 17, 2007, is the most historic day in the history of New
Jersey's transgender community.

As of this day our NJ Law Against Discrimination officially bans
discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations and
financial transactions based on a person's gender identity or
expression!

As of this day, the people and the state of New Jersey begin to embrace
their transgender citizens as full and equal partners in this, our
Garden State Democracy!

Yes, much more work desperately needs to be done. Hate crimes still
threaten us. Far too many transgender people in New Jersey and across
the country continue to be harassed on the job or in school, are forced
to accept work far below their abilities, are homeless, have little to
no access to basic health care, or live in poverty. Justice and full
equality are never achieved solely by an act of the legislature or the
stroke of a governor's pen. But it is start.

The courageous efforts of GRAANJ, Garden State Equality, and our
wonderful allies in the GLBTIQ community and New Jersey's progressive
community produced a trans equality bill supported by an overwhelming
number of legislators of both parties as well as a law that our Governor
was proud to sign


Lisa O'Connor, MD
Healthy Transitions, LLC
www.healthytransitions.md
1390 Valley Rd, Suite 1E
Stirling, NJ 07980
Phone: (908) 647-1688
FAX: (908) 647-5180
www.genderawareness.com
"Live as your true self!"
Yankee Doodle Lisa

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Man [...] must count no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth." (Jean Paul Sartre, 1943)