Historical Examples of Gender Discrimination
Certain forms of sex discrimination are illegal in some countries, while in other countries sex discrimination may be legally sanctioned under various circumstances.
Most countries don't protect from discrimination based on gender identity or expression and trans people still face an immense amount of discrimination.
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“After so many historical illustrations of the evil effects of abandoning the policy of protection for that of a revenue tariff, we are again confronted by the suggestion that the principle of protection shall be eliminated from our tariff legislation. Have we not had enough of such experiments?”
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“But there, where I have garnered up my heart,
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The fountain from the which my current runs
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