Monica Roberts
This week’s interviews are going to be about the referendum for the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, which the Supreme Court ordered to be on the ballot. It is City of Houston Proposition 1, with a Yes vote being in favor of keeping the ordinance, which as a reminder prohibits discrimination in city employment and city services, city contracts, public accommodations, private employment, and housing based on an individual’s sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, familial status, marital status, military status, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, or pregnancy. Monica Roberts is awriter, award winning activist, lecturer, speaker, native Houstonian and Texan who transitioned in 1994 and blogs about politics, transgender issues, and other things at TransGriot, which will be celebrating its ten year anniversary shortly. She was also heavily involved in getting HERO passed and in defending it at the ballot box. Here’s what we talked about:
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