If wishes were horses, beggars would ride

Published: October 2, 2007, 11:34 am

Tags: enda, gay

From an email just sent out by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (no link in their email, so they don't get one):Our community must continue to weigh in with every member of Congress, letting them know of our insistence that a fully [transgender] inclusive ENDA must pass the House this year. The reason gender identity (i.e., transgendered people, e.g., transexuals) got dropped from ENDA wasn't because Dem leaders didn't want trans in there. It's because we don't have the votes to get ENDA passed if it includes job protections for transexuals. No amount of "insistence" is going to change that fact; all the pressure in the world on Democratic leaders isn't going to convince Republicans and conservative Dems to support transexual rights. Pressuring Dem leaders to add the T back into ENDA is addressing the symptom but not the cause. The Dems dropped the T because we don't have the votes when we include the T. Forcing them to put the T back in does nothing to change the vote

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