Post by Logan on Mar 18, 2016 5:11:01 GMT -6
Reality television star Caitlyn Jenner and Boston Bruins center Patrice Bergeron are appearing in a new social media campaign to support a transgender anti-discrimination bill before the state Legislature.
Attorney General Maura Healey started the campaign on Facebook and Twitter with her own video calling on the public to support a bill “against discrimination, against harassment” and to promote it with the hashtag #EveryoneWelcome on social media.
The attorney general then released a video from Jenner, a gold-medal Olympic decathlete and the country’s best known transgender person, saying “no one should be called names or denied service or attacked simply because they are transgender.”
The legislation would bar discrimination in restaurants, malls and other public accommodations.
Read more: www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/03/17/caitlyn-jenner-promotes-mass-transgender-bill/o4ZrLXU6IW2DDpgiwC1STK/story.html
Attorney General Maura Healey started the campaign on Facebook and Twitter with her own video calling on the public to support a bill “against discrimination, against harassment” and to promote it with the hashtag #EveryoneWelcome on social media.
The attorney general then released a video from Jenner, a gold-medal Olympic decathlete and the country’s best known transgender person, saying “no one should be called names or denied service or attacked simply because they are transgender.”
The legislation would bar discrimination in restaurants, malls and other public accommodations.
Read more: www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/03/17/caitlyn-jenner-promotes-mass-transgender-bill/o4ZrLXU6IW2DDpgiwC1STK/story.html