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The increase in the size of the State Great Khural will address the rise in the number of voters represented by each parliamentarian, which has increased from 27,000 in 1992 to 44,000 today. All these changes are set to be in place in time for the next elections to the legislature, due in 2024. The Government is also shortly due to introduce separate proposals that will increase the representation of women in the parliament. Representatives in the State Great Khural debated and approved reforms that will increase the size of the body by 50, from 76 to 126 members and see nearly 40% of its members elected through proportional representation. The fact that trans people claim an authentic gender identity that may be different from their sex declared at birth does not in any way undermine the legitimacy of their claims to discrimination, nor does it implicate the legitimacy or authority of the law to address discrimination claims raised by cisgender women.ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia, J/PRNewswire/ - The Mongolian parliament has passed into law a number of changes to the country's Constitution that will strengthen its legislature, increase transparency and bring legislators closer to the people they serve. Immutability of identity has never been a sine qua non for eligibility for equality protections. In fact, the law prohibits religion, marital status, and citizenship-based discrimination even though one can change one's religion, marital status, or citizenship.

'The premise of the trans-exclusive argument assumes that a kind of stability of identity is required to justify protection from anti-discrimination laws. history, have been at the forefront of fighting for the modern ERA, which is succinctly articulated in the policy brief by Columbia Law School's ERA Project: In fact, trans women like Virginia Delegate Danica Roem, the first out and seated transgender state legislator in U.S. TERFs would have us believe that including trans women in our movement for equality puts cis women at risk. Today's ERA activists insist that this harmful rhetoric will not prevail and have banded together to firmly state that the Equal Rights Amendment can't be defeated by anti-trans scare tactics. In the 1970s ERA opponents like Schlafly maintained that 'real' women were destined to be housewives and that women who wanted a life beyond the domestic sphere were unnatural. But it's important to keep in mind that strictly defined roles for anyone based on their gender is precisely what feminism is designed to fight against. Lamentably, opposition to including trans women in legal protections not only comes from political conservatives but also trans-exclusionary radical feminists (commonly referred to as TERFs) who insist that 'real' women are assigned female at birth. When asked by a reporter, 'What's different about the hearing you're having now? What's different about the landscape?' the chairwoman highlighted the crucial importance of women in leadership at the highest levels of government: 'One thing that's different is I'm chair of the committee and I can have the hearing.' The first woman ever elected to chair the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Maloney was finally able to hold an official hearing.

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In October of last year, to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of House passage, longtime ERA advocate Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney held the first full committee hearing on the ERA in 40 years.Ĭhairwoman Maloney had tried many times to hold a hearing over the years, even holding an unofficial 'shadow hearing' in protest of being ignored by House leadership. It had passed the previous year in the House 354 to 23 - so it then went straight to the states for ratification. The ERA passed in the Senate March 22, 1972, by a vote of 84 to 8. Today it has been exactly 50 years since Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment.