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Democrats¹ in Lansing are taking another run at expanding the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation² and gender³ identity.

Democratic State Rep. Jon Hoadley of Kalamazoo and Senator Rebekah Warren of Ann Arbor⁴ have introduced bills to expand civil rights protection to people who are LGBT.

Detroit-based attorney Dana Nessel is recognized as one of the leading litigators of LGBT issues in Michigan.

Nessel spoke⁵ about the lack of state or federal laws protecting LGBT people in Michigan as the reason for expanding the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act.

She said there’s no federal law protecting the civil rights of LGBT people, and there’s no state protections either.

“I think that the state is the place where this has to occur,” Nessel said. “The few protections that existed of any kind on a federal level were really those that were imposed by the Obama administration, and all of those protections are now being rolled-back by the Trump⁶ administration.”

Nessel said expanding the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act would be good for the bottom-lines of Michigan businesses.

Listen to the entire conversation with Attorney Dana Nessel above.

1 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 orientation   

n.方向，目标；熟悉，适应，情况介绍

参考例句：

• Children need some orientation when they go to school.小孩子上学时需要适应。
• The traveller found his orientation with the aid of a good map.旅行者借助一幅好地图得知自己的方向。

3 gender   

n.（生理上的）性，（名词、代词等的）性

参考例句：

• French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。
• Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。

4 arbor   

n.凉亭；树木

参考例句：

• They sat in the arbor and chatted over tea.他们坐在凉亭里，边喝茶边聊天。
• You may have heard of Arbor Day at school.你可能在学校里听过植树节。

5 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

6 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。