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Rachel Green and Denise Ryder, Jericho High School Elisa Weidenbaum, Jericho Middle School Joey Bergida, Cold Spring Harbor High School Surgeon General's Warning: Teaching is hazardous to the health of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and those perceived by others to be gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Teachers that fit into the above category may regularly experience anxiety, headaches, stomach problems, high blood pressure, depression, and in some cases death caused by career-related complications. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin In some states… …civil rights legislation extends protection beyond federal criteria and precludes discrimination based on height, weight, and marital status However, courts have held… …that Title VII does not prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation Enter the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2007 • ENDA (H.R. 3685) prohibits an employer from using an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity as the basis for adverse or different treatment in employment or employment opportunities. • On Nov. 7, this bill was passed in the House of Representatives (235 – 184). The bill now goes on to be voted on in the Senate. Some statistics… There is no federal law that expressly forbids workplace discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Only twenty states currently have laws making it illegal to fire someone based on their sexual orientation Thirteen states and Washington D.C. have ENDAs that protect sexual orientation as well as gender expression Seven states have ENDAs that protect sexual orientation but not gender expression Thirty states have no laws that protect LGBT workers More facts… Vermont has had an ENDA since 1992 but began protecting gender expression only this year Wisconsin was the first state to pass an ENDA, in 1982 Minnesota, in 1993, became the first to have a transgender-inclusive ENDA When New York passed its sexual orientation only ENDA in 2002, LGBT rights groups hoped to cover transgenders in the near future (this has not happened yet) Why can’t a school be more like a business* (According to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force) corporate America has voluntarily put in place policies prohibiting discrimination against LGBT people as of January 2007, 430 (more than 85%) of the FORTUNE 500 companies had implemented nondiscrimination policies that included sexual orientation, and 121 (nearly 25%) had policies that included gender identity/expression *generally speaking, it is not good for a school to be like a business Civil rights for gay teachers is critical for youth a positive climate for gay teachers can have a tremendous effect on the physical and emotional development of gay youth and of youth (gay or straight) who have gay parents, relatives, and/or friends 30 percent of all completed teen suicides are by gay and lesbian youth Final potshot… …our laws currently facilitate and nurture an educational system where schools are able to use tax money to speak about respect while modeling bigotry