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Advocates have had great successes over the past decade in securing the same rights for LGBTQ people as straight and cisgender people. State lawmakers legalized same-sex marriage in 2011. The Democratic takeover of the state Senate in 2018 paved the legislative way for the passage of the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act early the following year, which outlawed discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender expression in workplaces, housing and public accommodations across the state. That push continues under the new Democratic supermajorities in the state Legislature. “It’s one of the longest preexisting bills prior to the Democratic takeover,” state Sen. Brad Hoylman of Manhattan said in an interview about legislation taking aim at a state law opponents have dubbed the walking while trans ban.