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Council advances package of bills on gender-identity protections, medical discrimination and penalties for prostitution
Summary
Pittsburgh council’s standing committees on July 2 gave affirmative recommendations to a package of measures that would reduce criminal penalties for consensual adult sex work, bar identity-based denials in medical care and direct law‑enforcement deprioritization of identity‑targeted crimes.
Pittsburgh City Council’s standing committees on July 2 moved forward a package of related civilian-safety and civil-rights measures aimed at protecting LGBTQ residents, limiting legal harms to consensual adult sex workers and prohibiting discrimination in medical care based on gender identity.
Council advanced an ordinance (Bill 19-76) that reduces the minimum penalty for consensual adult sex work from a misdemeanor to a summary offense, replacing criminal fines and jail exposure…
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