Tuesday, September 29, 2015

By The Numbers

Every year the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (CHRO) issues a report on the cases they handled for the year, the 2014/2015 report is out and the numbers show a slight increase in case of discrimination against us.

There were a total of 12 complaints bases on Gender Identity; eleven of them were for employment and one for public accommodation. While the year prior there were only a total of 6 complaints of which 3 were for employment and 2 were because of public accommodation and one in the “Other” category (the “Other” might be credit). Even though the number of cases has doubled little can be drawn from the numbers, it cannot be determined if the increase was because more companies are discriminating against us or if it is because more people are aware of the law and are filing claims.

Cases that the CHRO handle crawl through the systems because of budget cuts so many of the cases go unresolved for years.

We got a shout out about the Transgender Lives Conference in April… “CHRO Attorneys provided training on transgender law at UCONN during the Transgender Lives Conference.”

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