Today's link is from the Connecticut Journal Inquirer, which reports that the Connecticut legislature's Judiciary Committee, which rushed to consider more than 40 bills before its deadline, also adopted measures granting protections to transgendered people.
For more details, see my earlier item: http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-cttransbill0324.artmar24,0,4546371.story?coll=hc-headlines-local