City Of Fort Worth: Fort Worth Again Scores 100 For LGBTQ Inclusiveness

Dallas TX

24 November, 2021

2:58 PM

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Press release from City of Fort Worth: November 24, 2021 Fort Worth again scored a perfect 100 on the Human Rights Campaign's Municipal Equality Index,  which measures cities' inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residents. The 2021 Municipal Equality Index is a rating system of LGBTQ inclusion in municipal law. To earn perfect scores, cities must embrace inclusive laws and policies that often go beyond explicit protections offered by their state or the federal government, the report stated. The 2021 MEI is the 10th annual edition and rates 506 cities on 49 criteria from every state in the nation. This is the sixth consecutive year Fort Worth has scored 100. Fort Worth scored 99 points in 2015, 83 points in 2014, 91 points in 2013 and 89 points in 2012. Fort Worth's 2021 scores, based on five broad categories: Here's how other Texas cities stacked up on the scorecard: The full report, including scorecards for every city and a searchable database, is available online.      Get articles like this in your inbox. Subscribe to City News. This press release was produced by City of Fort Worth. The views expressed here are the author's own.