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RICHMOND, Va. (CN) – For members of the LGBTQ community who face discrimination in Virginia, state remedies are limited if not entirely nonexistent.

“You’re out of luck,” state Delegate Mark Levine, D-Alexandria, said in a phone interview. “They could discriminate all they want.”

But new legislation, set for a final vote in the Senate Thursday, is about to change all of that.

RICHMOND, Va. — The Senate passed a bill earlier this week that would allow a person who changed their sex to have a new birth certificate issued, something that the transgender community said will help eliminate problems experienced when their legal identification doesn’t match their transition.

Sen. Adam Ebbin, D-Alexandria, recalled his first visit to the General Assembly about 30 years ago to lobby for gay rights.

“Very few lawmakers came out of their offices to meet with us, and I don’t think it made a difference — at least at that time,” he said. “Now we have five members of the LGBT caucus, which would have been unthinkable a few years ago.”

Va. House passes bill to ban conversion therapy for minors

The Virginia House of Delegates on Monday in a bipartisan vote approved a bill that would ban so-called conversion therapy for minors.