Miami – Miami-Dade County Commission is moving forward an amendment that would add gender identity and expression to its current Human Rights Ordinance.
County Commission voted 10-0 at its Sept. 16 meeting on the first reading of the agenda item. Gina Duncan, Equality Florida Transgender Inclusion Director, spoke at the meeting about the importance of having gender identity added to the law.
A group of representatives from Equality Florida accompanied Duncan at the Miami Dade Commission meeting to support adding protections to the county’s HRO.
This isn’t the first time this amendment has been brought up to the Miami-Dade County Commission. In August 2013, the County Commission was presented with an amendment to include gender identity and expression into its existing HRO. The amendment was sponsored by Commissioners Bruno Barreiro and Audrey Edmonson, and also passed on its first reading with an 11-1 vote, but it did not make it past the first reading.
The amendment will now go to a second reading at a later date – yet to be announced – to be voted on and enacted.
