Looks like the HRC has really screwed the pooch with their wishy-washy stance on the ENDA bill and the possibility of dropping transgendered people from it. Board member Donna Rose has resigned in protest. Donna was the first and only openly transgendered person on the board of the Human Rights Campaign. Because of the dust up regarding the Employee Non-Discrimination Bill she has walked out, leaving HRC with no openly transgendered people on its board.
I hate to see the GLBT community split like this but I have to support her actions. Throwing Transgendered people under the bus in order to get a watered down ENDA passed is a crappy way to cave to the bigots in Congress. Time to add an asterisk to that equals sign hat HRC uses as their logo. In fine print it should say, “*equality for everyone but transgendered people, and anyone else we find politically incorrect.”
The whole thing reminds me of the prejudice towards leathermen and drag queens back in the early days of the Gay Rights movement. The politically astute gay men forgot that Stonewall was started by drag queens and supported by leathermen. Time for HRC to get over itself and affirm that transgendered folk are just as queer as the rest of us.
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