BOSTON -- Transgender advocates gathered at the Statehouse Wednesday to urge state legislators to pass a bill that would grant transgender people increased legal protections.

The group demanded action on a bill stuck in committee.

"There are two weeks left in the legislative session. This is the right thing to do. It's about people lives, working families. It's about jobs. It's about giving people the dignity to walk down the street everyday," said Dee Dee Edmondson, of Mass Equality.

The push that has been under way for three years follows rulings allowing same sex marriage and extending rights to civil unions.

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