The Delaware Ferry is to be the first of the collar districts in Philadelphia, which prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
The chairwoman of the Council Monica Taylor said that he hopes that the Council in Democratic Flames will vote next month to a regulation codifying a comprehensive non -discriminatory policy for the counties and establishing a committee of human relations in order to enforce it.
The regulation, which was introduced on Wednesday, is developing at work, which the Council began earlier this summer to protect the inhabitants of LGBTQ As President Donald Trump, he heads for a transgender community. The Council started a resolution in June, stating that Delaware’s Ferry is a sheltered haven for transgender and sex care.
“When we have the opportunity to protect [our residents] From discrimination, regardless of whether it is about education or apartments, we should take advantage of this opportunity, ‘said Taylor.
At least 78 local governments in Pennsylvania, In this Philadelphia introduced regulations in the field of non -discrimination, according to Pennsylvania, the Youth Congress, which is in favor of LGBTQ youth. While Delaware’s Ferry would be the first of the Filly collars to introduce such a policy, several towns and districts in the suburbs have already taken this step independently. At Lehigh and Allegheny, similar ordinances approved at the level of the Ferrings.
If it is approved, the regulation would cause extensive prohibition of discrimination in apartments, employment, healthcare, education and public apartment for a wide set of reasons, including breed, religion, sex, disability status, education and LGBTQ identity.
The ban is expanding to discrimination, which is already prohibited by state law in order to protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and sexual expression.
Linda Embry, mother of Wallingford adult transgender woman, said that the parents of transgender people are facing a great fear of their children. When her daughter presented herself as a man, she said Embry, she was able to fly under the radar and face slight discrimination. It all changed, she said when her daughter began to live authentically.
“Now, when he goes through the street as a transgender woman, the amount of pressure she must absorb is painful,” said Embry.
Joe Finio, a resident of Marple, complained that the council was too focused on “social issues”, and not on the financial problems before which he faced the unit – Delaware raised taxes by 23% last year in response to budget deficiencies.
In response, a member of the councilor Christine Reuther argued that a significant part of the budget of the Fountain is issued on social issues such as mental health, exploit of children, trauma due to intimidation and victimization of crime. LGBTQ Americans are in the face of a disproportionately high level of mental health, according to To American Psychiatric Association.
“There are people who have differences in the way they live in their lives and as he sees that they should be requested because they face the challenges with which most people, people Cisgender, do not encounter,” she said, arguing that the commission would help solve social problems, which he already devotes the unit resources.
Enforcement committee
Pursuant to the proposed regulation, persons who are in the face of discrimination in the county could lodge a complaint with the newly created Commission for human relations of Delaware, which would review and the right to examine complaints. After receiving a response from an entity accused of discrimination, the Commission will have the right to carry out interrogations, establishing and mediation in the dispute or order the remedy, including a fine of USD 500.
Michael Straw, chairman of the Media Party of the Republican Party, told the council members on Wednesday The night, which as a homosexual supported the regulation on non -discrimination. He asked, however, whether the regulation on non -discrimination could be adopted without a commission due to the costs that the Commission could create for the poviat government.
“At the moment it is an expense that I don’t know if we don’t have to afford,” he said. Later, at the meeting, the county employees argued that the regulation would be impossible without a committee.
Without further research, the Commission may not receive unanimous support from the management board.
Reuther and a member of the Elaine Schaefer council said that some changes may be necessary in the final politics. Schaefer called specifically to obtain further research on the costs of the commission and the potential of abuse. While she supports this concept, Schaefer She said that she was not ready to support politics without those research that, she said, it cannot be completed before Taylor hopes that she would vote next month.
“I really want to solve these problems and support the structure that would come to the goals we try to reach,” she said.
