Tell Dallas County Commissioners to Add Transgender Protections

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Contact all five Dallas County commissioners and ask them to add transgender protections
from Dallas Voice

Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins confirmed today that he’s requested an opinion from the District Attorney’s Office about adding transgender protections to the county’s employment nondiscrimination policy.

Jenkins’ request for information from county attorneys follows the Commissioners Court’s vote last week to add sexual orientation, but not gender identity, to the policy covering the county’s 7,000 employees.

Jenkins and Commissioner Dr. Elba Garcia, two newly elected Democrats who spearheaded the proposal to add sexual orientation to the policy, said they thought sexual orientation covered transgender employees, which experts say it does not.

Since then, Jenkins said he’s received about a dozen e-mails from people in the LGBT community — which he called a lot — asking him to revisit the issue.

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Contact Info for the Commissioners:

County Judge Clay Jenkins – 214-653-7949
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Dist. 1 Maurine Dickey – 214-653-7552
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Dist. 2 Mike Cantrell – 214-653-6100
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Dist. 3 John Wiley Price – 214-653-6671
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Dist. 4 Dr. Elba Garcia – 214-653-6670
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