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Clerk 03/19/2018
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A MOTION declaring the necessity of administrative planning and coordination to address gender identity, and sexual orientation inclusion in King County administrative processes and establishing a gender identity and sexual orientation inclusion task force to develop a recommended King County administrative gender identity and sexual orientation inclusion strategy.
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WHEREAS, the King County council is currently going through a process to make the King County Code gender neutral as a step towards gender equity, and
WHEREAS, gender identity is one's personal experience of one's own gender which may or may not correspond with the sex they were assigned at birth, and
WHEREAS, gender encompasses a wide range of identities in addition to male and female, and
WHEREAS, according to a 2016 report by the Williams Institute at the University of California Los Angeles Law School an estimated 0.6 percent of adults, which is approximately 1.4 million people, identify as transgender or gender nonconforming in the United States, and
WHEREAS, according to the King County Trans Resource and Referral Guide, "transgender" refers to those whose gender identity or gender expression does not match the gender norms that mainstream society attaches to their gender assigned at birth, and
WHEREAS, according to the Williams Institute, in Washington State 0.62 percent of residents, which is approximately 32,850 people, identify as transgender, and
WHEREAS, while one transgender person's gender identity or expression might fit the dominant gender-binary paradigm of male or female, a different transgender person's gender identity might not fit into the dominant gender-binary paradigm, and
WHEREAS, in 2016, Merriam-Webster added eight new terms recognizing nonbinary gender identity and expression including "genderqueer," which is defined as relating to, or being a person whose gender identity cannot be categorized as solely male or female, and
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