This is what most people saw when tuning into A Quality of Life this morning.
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Supporters, led by council member Adam Medrano, said the proposed change to the city’s law was just a few much-needed paperwork – “clean-up language” to clarify the protections the city already offers.
Members of the Dallas City Council are considering adding “gender identity and expression” to the city’s anti-discrimination ordinance.
Medrano writes that gender is “determined by a person’s own perception”.
The rewrite removed an exemption from the Dallas city charter that said property owners could deny renting rooms to same-sex couples when a housing facility contains a common bathroom, kitchen or similar facilities that would be shared by all occupants.
“It is the policy of the city of Dallas to bring about through fair, orderly, and lawful procedures the opportunity for every person to obtain employment, access to all places of public accommodation, and housing, without regard to sexual orientation”.
“SEXUAL ORIENTATION means an individual’s real or perceived orientation as heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual or an individual’s real or perceived gender identity”, the code says.
Council member Rick Callahan, of Pleasant Grove, wasn’t prepared to sign off on the amendment without discussion.
But, this isn’t the last time you’ll hear about Prop #1.
The amendment was discussed at a committee level on Monday before being sent to a vote by the full council on Tuesday.
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Just a week ago, voters in the city of Houston, Texas, rejected the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) by a wide margin, a measure that was aimed at increasing civil rights protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.
