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august 3. 2001 » and discussion with many people.” ABC News already has received a large number o f letters about the issue. “As we worked on this series...it became evident that there was a clear link between opinions about the matter of choice and attitudes towards gay Americans,” Bettag wrote. “Though many in the gay community may be con vinced the question has been answered, many peo U .S . Rep. John Conyers, D -M ich., wants answers about the ple still argue about W hite House’s backroom deal with the Salvation Army whether science has re Nadler and U .S. Rep. John Conyers, solved this, whether religion has resolved this.” D-Mich., the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, say they consistently have RHODE ISLAND been stonewalled by the W hite House in their hode Island became the second state in the attempts to obtain information about the meet nation— following Minnesota in 1993— to ings, who attended and authorized them and adopt a nondiscrimination law that clearly pro what secret deals were made. They contacted hibits discrimination against trans people in the G A O in order to use that agency’s statutory employment, housing, credit and public accom authority to investigate wrongdoing by the modations. The law, passed July 17, amends all of executive branch. the state’s nondiscrimination laws to ensure trans “It is clear that the W hite House wishes that people who face discrimination may seek redress this whole issue would just be forgotten, after in the form of injunctive relief and damages. being forced to admit more and more each day “The passage of this long-overdue law is a after initial denials,” Nadler said. “But what is crucial step in the struggle to make clear that dis reported to have happened in those meetings— crimination based on gender difference and the brokering of our nation’s civil rights laws in stereotypes is wrong,” said Kate Monteiro, a backroom— is far too important to let go with Rhode Island Alliance for Lesbian and Gay Civil still so many unresolved questions.” Rights president. “W e’re proud of the...Legisla ture’s continuing commitment to assure all Rhode Islanders are afforded basic human rights and treated with dignity and respect.” | he Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against I Defamation has expressed concern about The statute adds the phrase “gender identity the title of an upcoming Nightline series on the or expression” to the state’s nondiscrimination laws. It defines “gender identity or expression” lives of gay and lesbian people in the United States. “A Matter of Choice?”— announced as including “a person’s actual or perceived gen July 23 during the Television Critics Associa der as well as a person’s gender identity, gender- tion press tour in Pasadena, Calif.— is scheduled related self-image, gender-related appearance or to air in late September. gender-related expression, whether or not that “G LA A D is confident that A B C News will gender identity, gender-related self-image, gen fulfill this series’ potential and reflect the diversi der-related appearance or gender-related expres ty of the lesbian and gay community in fair and sion is different from that traditionally associat accurate manner,” said Cathy Renna, news ed with the person’s sex at birth.” media director. “B u t...‘A Matter of Choice?’ T h e law protects a wide range of people, misrepresents the nature of sexual orientation broadly referred to as transgender, who face dis and perpetuates the outdated but still-harmful crimination in many different contexts. 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