Philadelphia City Council 2019 Stated Meetings of Philadelphia City Council, 14 Feb 2019

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From YouTube: Councilman Green Speaks on Bill No. 180820 Regarding Gender Neutral References 2-14-2019

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From the Stated Meeting of Philadelphia City Council held Thursday, February 14, 2019:

Councilman Derek Green's (At Large) remarks on his legislation to update and remove gender-specific references in the City Charter with regards to members of Council.

Read the resolution: http://bit.ly/2NcpJni

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Thank you, men and women, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls in our pleasantries, in our formalities on to many bathrooms, and far too many painful conversations, longstanding assumptions about a gender binary and male preeminence have lingered in our culture and in our language and in our laws. Our culture has two long attempted to enforce too rigid mutually exclusive genders upon every person, regardless of their experiences or preference, but I believe that every individual has dignity they.

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Each of us is due the respect to choose not only our own name but also, but also our own identity. You only need to know Ashley's and Hunters, Lee's and Leslie's, Sam's and Chris's to know that you might need more than a name to know a pronoun. You don't need to have a radical politics to say they and then about an unidentified person to pervades common speech to realize a more perfect union.

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We need to affirmative ly, change our customers and our linguistic habits to leave pronoun choices to the person in question that we continue to ship that has brought us police officers, firefighters and flight attendants. Where gender titles once stood today. I ask my fellow members of council to take one such step to rectify an archaic but unnatural assumption.

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As for a home goal charter that men and only men could should or would serve in his August body, I ask that we presented a vote as an opportunity to entitle those represented positions to reflect a possibility for each and every citizen, no matter their gender identity to serve the city, because in the city of Philadelphia, we should treat all our residents like siblings, equal in the eyes of God, in our and in our laws and with that council.

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President I hope that my colleagues will support this resolution as well as to commend the supporting bill number one. Seven, zero, 365, I move for the adoption at a resolution. Thank.

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You there's been mood a second that the resolution be adopted because resolution number one 808, 3 4- is an amendment to the home. World charter requires two-thirds vote. Therefore, the question now shall the resolution be adopted. Mr. Decker call the roll. That's.

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Our eyes are 16. The nays are zero. Two-Thirds of all members of council having voting, affirm their resolution 1 a 0 8 3 4 has been adopted.