Fort Worth is a progressive city, but not a perfectly progressive city.

In the wake of the June 28 police raid of the Rainbow Lounge, a gay bar south of downtown, I’ve been researching the city’s anti-discrimination ordinances. My work also has been spurred by the city Human Relations Commission’s consideration of a new ordinance to prohibit discrimination against people who are transgender: people born as males who wish to live their lives as females, and those born as female who want to live as male.

That’s often referred to as "gender identity." Austin has an ordinance prohibiting discrimination in housing, employment or access to public accommodations based on gender identity, which is defined as "a person’s various individual attributes, actual or perceived, that may be in accord with or sometimes opposed to one’s physical anatomy, chromosomal sex, genitalia or sex assigned at birth."

I discovered that Fort Worth already has an ordinance, adopted nine years ago, that prohibits discrimination based on a person’s sexual orientation. That’s defined in the ordinance as "heterosexuality, homosexuality or bisexuality or being identified with such orientation."