. >> i want to acknowledge john gibner who is helping to cover the meeting today with that mr. clerk, if you call item number one. >> it is a hearing regarding various city departments efforts to implement, the lease bean gay, and transgender chapter 12 n. >> we have been joined today at the committee by supervisor john avalos who is the main sponsor of this item that is co-sponsored by supervisor weiner and myself and i want to thank supervisor avalos for his leadership, for asking this hearing, welcome to the committee and supervisor the floor is yours. >> thank you, chair campos and i want to thank you for quour co-sponsor ship along with supervisor scott weiner, this is a hearing to review what the city is doing to provide sensitivity training for the city employees and contractors who interact with lesbian, lgbtqq. this goes back to the 90s when the youth commission and the human rights commission have hearing in response to committee stories about the youth who access the health services in the city experiencing discrimination, and even some cases violence. and these hear