Latest News: September 2006

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September 2006

• INTRAA's Lafayette Area Coordinator and another INTRAA member worked for a local legislator in conjunction with the IEPAC volunteer campaign, going door-to-door talking with local voters.
• INTRAA's Lafayette Area Coordinator worked with Citizens for Civil Rights to strategize advocating for a local trans woman experiencing harassment.
• INTRAA members created a new brochure which explains what gender identity discrimination is and how to file a complaint under the newly revised Indianapolis Human Rights Ordinance.
• INTRAA members helped to review and revise a new brochure published by the Bloomington Human Rights Commission which explains what gender identity discrimination is and how to file a complaint under the newly revised Human Rights Ordinance.
• INTRAA's Membership and Outreach Committee provided information about INTRAA and transgender issues at the OUT GLBT Resource Fair at Indiana University Bloomington.
• INTRAA's Lafayette Area Coordinator served on the planning committee for the Tenth Anniversary Party for Citizens for Civil Rights.
• One of INTRAA's board members joined other concerned gay and lesbian citizens in talking with Indiana Senator Patricia Miller (R-Irvington area) to put a face on transgender issues and to discuss the discrimination that transgender people face.  We will be following up with Senator Miller and will make available to her the booklet Made In God's Image.
• INTRAA's Lafayette Area Coordinator along with another INTRAA member attended the Lafayette GLBTI Community Picnic hosted by PrideLafayette, Citizens for Civil Rights, Lafayette PFLAG, and PRYSM.
• INTRAA members continued work with members of the Columbus Gay Straight Alliance to get gender identity and sexual orientation added to the Columbus Human Rights Ordinance.
• INTRAA's REEL GENDER Film Series showed the film Ma Vie En Rose, an excellent story of a transgender girl who embarks on a journey of self-discovery.
• INTRAA's Lafayette Area Coordinator worked weekends for a local political candidate who is running for the Indiana State House of Representatives, staffing the party office.
• INTRAA staff and board members met with local religious leaders and other LGBT legal advocates to plan a visit and other strategies for helping a trans woman imprisoned in northern Indiana who is suffering severe abuse.
• The Nominating Committee finalized a list of nominees for the INTRAA Board of Directors. Board members will be elected at the INTRAA Annual Membership Meeting on October 21.

View all latest news entries in the INTRAA Updates section.