BOSTON - Transgender rights advocates pressured lawmakers Wednesday to vote on a bill that would protect transgender people in state non-discrimination and hate crime laws.

The bill, first filed in 2007, has been held up in the Judiciary Committee for most of the two-year session, despite having 104 co-sponsors in the House and Senate including House Speaker Robert DeLeo (D-Winthrop).

Through a spokesman, DeLeo observed that the bill is under consideration.

Gunner Scott, executive director of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, said he has not spoken with legislative leadership about the bill’s prospects for several months but is scheduled to meet with DeLeo next Tuesday. A DeLeo aide declined to comment on his schedule.

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