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A campus tradition—over 100 years of publication.
Transgender: Language discussion delays vote
Continued from page 1
In 2002 the city proposed language
that would have created an exception
for public showers and restrooms
from protection and allowed public
places to require documentation, as
the city of Portland does but few
cities outside of Oregon do. Then
Mayor Jim Torrey threatened the pro
posal with a veto, and the gender
identity language was dropped.
Earlier this year, the GIWG decided
to draft a code that didn’t include the
documentation requirement.
“The feeling was very strong that
documentation was not always easily
obtained or could be stressful to get,”
GIWG member Risa Bear said.
“I think that we avoided certain
pitfalls that were in the Portland
ordinance,” GIWG member and
University student Maceo Persson
said. “We did a lot of research on
what code would be the best for Eu
gene, and we ended up voting for
the best language.”
The GIWG sent the proposed code
to the HRC, whose job is to examine
the language and forward a recom
mendation on to the City Council for
a vote. The HRC has yet to do so for a
number of reasons.
The city spent time on legal work
examining how the proposed
language fit into the city’s indecent
exposure laws, and the HRC
has not yet overcome the controver
sy surrounding the public
accommodations exception.
At the HRC’s meeting this month,
a petition with signatures of 28
women who would prefer the docu
mentation clause be added was pre
sented by Eugene resident Rebecca
Taylor. Taylor said in an e-mail that
adding documentation is only one of
a few options she has explored and
that she is trying to work out a com
promise with everyone in the
transgender community.
Despite the delays, most involved
are interested in finding a solution ac
ceptable to both sides.
“I think it’s important to discuss
what’s the best solution,” Persson
said, “especially if you’re coming up
with a law.”
Bear sees the exception as more
a way to help the ordinance pass
than to actually protect people in
public spaces.
“The documentation clause is use
ful politically were it to blunt the op
position,” Bear said, “but in the real
world it doesn’t make a difference.”
Bear is transitioning from male to
female. She has not yet had an opera
tion, but because she has legal docu
mentation that says she is female, she
would be allowed into female show
ers even if the code required
documentation.
“If I went in there it would cause
a bit of a riot,” Bear said. “This isn’t
useful to businesses, trans people
or clients.”
Despite the discussions, Kelly says
the majority of the HRC is comfort
able with the language as is. Kelly
hopes the HRC will forward its rec
ommendation to the council before
the council adjourns for the year on
Dec. 14.
“My own preference would
be that we move forward fairly
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soon,” Kelly said.
Once that happens, Kelly doesn’t
see the code encountering any prob
lems at the council level.
But even if the council approves
the changes to the code, the issue can
still go to the voters in a referendum.
If a petition is submitted with enough
signatures within 30 days of the
changes going into effect, the issue
will be sent to the voters. Though
Kelly is still confident citizens would
still approve the changes, he thinks
the act of a referendum would
be damaging.
“A referral itself sends a message of
intolerance to people in the commu
nity,” Kelly said.
Currently there are no protections
for transgender people if they’re
denied housing, employment or ac
cess to public places because of their
gender identity. Despite the negotia
tions on the documentation issue,
that is still the main issue at hand,
Bear said.
“To everyone’s mind that has been
working on this, the important parts
of the code revision are the addition
of transpeople to the list of those
against whom discrimination
in employment and housing in
Eugene shall be illegal,” Bear said in
an e-mail.
"I'VE BEEN DOING ADVOCACY WORK WITH
TRANSPEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD PROBLEMS WITH
HOUSING AND FINDING JOBS," PERSSON SAID.
“THIS ORDINANCE IS
REALLY IMPO RIANT."
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