Transgender movement at a crossroads

[Hazumu]

by Richard J. Rosendall
contributing writer
Wednesday Jan 16, 2008

Bay Windows

"[Meredeth] Bacon made an interesting claim: "NCTE and the trans community do not need HRC because the United ENDA coalition has cemented our collaborative relationship with the Task Force, PFLAG, Lambda Legal and 300 other LGBT organizations." This ignores the failure of the United ENDA coalition to sway more than a handful of votes in Congress, as well as the evidence that the gay rank and file strongly disagrees with its all-or-nothing stance. In the left's ideological echo chamber, it is considered self-evident that Barney Frank's successful legislative strategy is somehow the failed one. Earth to United ENDA: Think again. Sen. Ted Kennedy has announced that he will proceed in the Senate with the version of ENDA passed by the House. If that is a sign of failure, let's have more of it."

[Keira]

Good grief, they don't get it.
Frank put the TS on board, TO LET THEM GO.
In his mind there was never an inclusive ENDA.
The ENDA that passed is the ENDA he wanted to push for from the start.
We were used as ballast to lift ENDA up.

Also, the 300 orgs, just happened, of course they can't sway congress now.
This article is as full of crap as all the preceeding ones.
Again, who on earth does this thing protect.
How will you be able to prove someone was fired because they're gay?
Gender expression is much more likely to cause friction and make it
possible to prove discrimation.

Frank's a big ass and he has to live with being a donkey forever in my mind.