Lee, Pressley, Garcia push for gender-neutral language in US legal code
- House Democrats have introduced the Equality in Our Laws Act, a legislation aimed at replacing masculine generics with gender-neutral language in the nation's legal code to be more inclusive to women, nonbinary, intersex, and gender-nonconforming Americans.
- The proposed act has been endorsed by organizations such as the Equal Rights Amendment Coalition and SisTers PGH, and aims to address the intentional exclusion of marginalized communities in the US code.
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Lee, Pressley, Garcia push for gender-neutral language in US legal code
House Democrats introduced legislation Tuesday to make the nation’s legal code more inclusive to women, nonbinary, intersex and gender-nonconforming Americans by replacing masculine generics with gender-neutral language. The Equality in Our Laws Act, introduced Tuesday by Reps. Summer Lee (D-Pa.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), has been endorsed by the Equal Rights Amendment…
Progressive lawmakers want to erase gendered language in legal documents
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