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oe November 3, 2015
-» Honorable Members of the Quit f Life & Enizonment Commitee: Sandy Greyson (Chi),
" Tin A Young (Vice Chain, Fickey O. Calahan, Mark Cayton, Phi T. Kington, 8. Adam M:Gough
‘ssscr Memo from Councimember Adar Medrano, Chair ofthe LGBT Taskforce
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CITY OF DALLAS
‘nfl accord with Resolution No, 14-0477, passed by the cty council on March 5, 2014, see the attached
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one November 3, 2015, CITY OF DALLAS,
so Honorable Members ofthe Quality of Life & Environment Committe: Sandy Greyson (Chak),
Tifinni A. Young (Vice Chai), Rickey D. Calahan, Mark Cayton, Php T. Kingston, B. Adam McGough
swnecr Amendment to Chapter 46, Unlawful Discriminatory Practices Relating to Sexual Orientation”
‘On March 5, 204, the cty council passed Resolution No. 14.0477, which stated that the cy iin ful favor
‘of equal rights for iesban, gay, tisoxual, and transgender (LGBT) employees of he oly of Daas, cizens
wahin the cy of Dal, and vistors tothe cty of Dallas. On September 26,2014, the city counci amended
Chapter 34, "Personnel Rules" of the Dallas City Code to address the disparate treatment of LGBT
‘employees and thec families as requred by Resolution No. 14-0477. The recommended changes, which
‘would amend Chapter 46, the ciy’sant-cscrimintion ordinance, address the dsparate treatment of LGBT
ciizens within the cty of Dalas and LGBT visors tothe cy of Dalas. These recommendatons reflect
input from and concems ofthe ciy’s LGBT Taskorce,
‘The proposed changes woul adress the dsparatetetent of LGBT cizens ofthe ciy and visitors to
the cly by: (1) amending the tie of the Chapter to cay thatthe Chapter adcesses the “gts of
‘ranogendered indvduals as well s gay, lesbian, and bsowal inal; (2) docking that the cy
‘encourages al ens within he city, even those ene tal are excoped fom the requirements ofthe
‘Chapter, to recognize the rights ofl indvidvals; (3) carling the disincion between sexual ofentation
‘and gender identy and exoresion so tat the defitios ofthese ters gn with the dotntions in
Chapter 34, Personnel Rules” ofthe Calas City Coe; (4 providing that a person's genders determined
by the person's own perception of her gender; (6) roving an excepton thal aloned discrimination in
‘xian housing facies; and (6 establishing a deadine forth acinar to notly a complahant ater