HRC’s New Corporate Equality Index Requires Removal of Exclusions to Transgender Healthcare and Bene
October 6, 2010
Transgender healthcare coverage and benefits have for too long been excluded from many business’ healthcare plans. It has been a systematic level of discrimination against transgender employees that has a devastating impact on so many people, and it needs to change. In 2002, only 5% of CEI-rated companies included gender identity among their non-discrimination policies and in 2004, only 3% of CEI-rated companies addressed transgender health with limited benefit offerings.
Continue Reading ►Guest Post: Pageants, Medicine, and LGBT Rights
October 6, 2010
In late June, the title of Miss New York was earned by my daughter, Claire Buffie. She is an intelligent, articulate, and passionate 2008 Ball State University graduate whose personal platform is “Straight For Equality -- Let’s Talk.” As a straight ally for gay rights, she speaks with conviction offering a voice for a minority group -- which includes her older sister, Sarah -- that suffers unjustly on many fronts. If the historically conservative Miss America Organization is ready to confront controversial civil rights issues, should one be surprised that the historically conservative medical community of Indiana has embarked upon the same?
Continue Reading ►HRC Members in Buffalo Fight Hard for Pro-Marriage Candidates in State Senate Race
October 6, 2010
Tim Kennedy’s campaign for New York State Senate is heating up with polls now showing Tim in a statistical dead heat with Republican nominee and marriage foe Jack Quinn III. HRC is making sure our members know about this key race. I've been working here on the ground helping to turn out our members for volunteer canvasses and phone banks here in Western New York.
Continue Reading ►New Survey Shows Majority Support for Equal Workplace Benefits
October 5, 2010
As we released our new Corporate Equalty Index yesterday, the Out & Equal Workplace Summit was kicking off in Los Angeles. According to their recent survey, nearly four our of five -- or 78% -- of heterosexual adults agree that how an employee performs at his or her job should be the standard for judging an employee, not his or her sexual orientation. Also, three out of five -- or 62% -- of heterosexual adults agree that regardless of their sexual orientation, all employees are entitled to equal benefits on the job, such as health insurance for their partners or spouses.
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