New Orleans, LA, Passed in 1998
Ordinance No. 18794 approved 7/8/98
Amending Section 86 of the Code of the City of New Orleans, and reordaining section 54-379, relative to discrimination and intimidation on the basis of gender identification.
"Gender identification" is the actual or perceived condition, status or acts of: 1) identifying emotionally or psychologically with the sex other than one’s biological or legal sex at birth, whether or not there has been a physical change of the organs of sex, 2) presenting and/or holding oneself out to the public as a member of the biological sex that was not one’s biological or legal sex at birth, 3) lawfully displaying physical characteristics and/or behavioral characteristics and/or expressions which are widely perceived as being more appropriate to the biological or legal sex other than one’s biological sex at birth, as when a male is perceived as feminine or a female is perceived as masculine, and/or 4) being physically and/or behaviorally androgynous.