First trans witness ever to testify before Senate on ENDA

[Shana A]

First trans witness ever to testify before Senate on ENDA

By Chris Johnson on June 7, 2012

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/06/07/first-trans-witness-ever-to-testify-before-senate-on-enda/
 
An openly transgender person for the first time is set to testify before the Senate on Tuesday about the lack of federal employment LGBT non-discrimination protections and the need to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, according to a committee notice published Thursday.

Kylar Broadus, founder of the Columbia, Mo., based Trans People of Color Coalition, is scheduled be among five witnesses who'll speak during the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee hearing titled, "Equality At Work: The Employment Non-Discrimination Act." The hearing is set to begin at 10 am, Room 106 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

According to his bio of the TPOCC website, Broadus is an attorney who hails from Missouri and founded the organization in 2010. He's written essays of transgender rights, won awards for LGBT advocacy, is a board member of the National Black Justice Coalition and was formerly on the board for the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force.

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ENDA Senate Hearing on June 12 to Include Trans, Legal, Business Witnesses
Posted by Chris Geidner |
June 7, 2012 10:41 AM

http://www.metroweekly.com/poliglot/2012/06/enda-senate-hearing-on-june-12-to-include-trans-le.html

This morning, the Senate Housing, Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee announced the witness list for the upcoming June 12 hearing on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act -- a bill to outlaw sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination in private employment.

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He continued: "This upcoming HELP Committee hearing will provide an excellent opportunity to build on the Committee's previous work and help advance our shared goal of equal rights for all Americans. I am hopeful that working together, we will reach a point where lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons enjoy the same rights and protections, and full equality, as all our fellow Americans."

[Amazon D]

I met Kylar Broadus in 2002 when he worked for HRC and i was protesting the lack of Trans in the enda bill. That was when i camped out for 23 days and nights in a pup tent in may 2002 by the reflecting pool lol those were the days

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sntc/message/855

NTAC is a non-profit lobbying group founded in 1999. "She has a different view of things than the mainstream transgender people might," she said of Clarke. "She tends to march to her own drummer. But she has a lot of our values." Clarke helped establish the Minnesota Trans House in that state to give elderly, disabled or homeless transgender men and women a place to live. While Clarke was on the Mall this week, Kylar W. Broadus, a female-to-male transgender supporter, brought her several bottles of water and some other supplies she said the Human Rights Campaign helped purchase. Broadus began working at HRC in January as a lawyer and state legislative manager.

[barbie]

Wow!

That news means that the USA will be a far better place for transgender people, including foreign visitors like me?

Barbie~~

[Jamie D]

I met Kylar Broadus in 2002 when he worked for HRC and i was protesting the lack of Trans in the enda bill. That was when i camped out for 23 days and nights in a pup tent in may 2002 by the reflecting pool lol those were the days

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sntc/message/855

NTAC is a non-profit lobbying group founded in 1999. "She has a different view of things than the mainstream transgender people might," she said of Clarke. "She tends to march to her own drummer. But she has a lot of our values." Clarke helped establish the Minnesota Trans House in that state to give elderly, disabled or homeless transgender men and women a place to live. While Clarke was on the Mall this week, Kylar W. Broadus, a female-to-male transgender supporter, brought her several bottles of water and some other supplies she said the Human Rights Campaign helped purchase. Broadus began working at HRC in January as a lawyer and state legislative manager.

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