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Skidmore proposes statewide protections for transgender people as Tampa enacts rule locally

Posted Nov 20, 2009 by Catherine Dolinski, Tallahassee bureau

Updated Nov 20, 2009 at 06:16 PM

One day after the Tampa City Council voted to protect transgender people from discrimination, state Rep. Kelly Skidmore has filed a perennial state bill that would do the same.

Like the city’s new rule, Skidmore’s bill would protect people from discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations based on gender identity or expression. The Tampa City Council voted 5-1 for the local ordinance at its Thursday meeting.

When Skidmore, D-Boca Raton, first filed her antidiscrimination bill in 2007, she worded it to create protections from discrimination based on “sexual orientation.” In 2008, she added “gender identity or expression.” The expanded wording appeared again in the version she filed for the 2009 session and is likewise present in the bill she just proposed for 2010. (Technicality: Skidmore submitted the bill on Thursday but then withdrew it and filed the current version today, online records show.)