Ordinance 15-28

This ordinance is sponsored by Councilmember Neher and amends the Bloomington Municipal Code to extend full protection to the classes of “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.” This shift is informed by changing judicial and agency interpretation of the laws protecting these categories. Such changing interpretations increasingly locate sexual orientation discrimination and gender identity discrimination within the protected category of sex discrimination. Location of these classes within the protected category of sex provides the City with a defensible position in calling for mandatory, rather than voluntary, compliance with the Bloomington Municipal Code’s prohibition against sexual orientation discrimination and gender identity discrimination.