HRC Head: ENDA Trans Dropping A Possibility

[Hazumu]

"HRC had previously pledged not to support a non-inclusive ENDA, but went back on that deal, thus sparking an ugly civil war between activists hellbent on keeping a united front and those who felt it best to take baby steps: gays first, then trans folk.

Well, that debate rages on and this year Solmonese knows not to make promises he can't keep. Nor does he want people to think HRC's omnipotent, telling Ohio's Gay People's Chronicle that much of ENDA's future depends largely on our elected officials, including the president. Solmonese also insists that he and his HRC homies want nothing less than a fully inclusive ENDA, but maintain that incrementalism is the best way to go:"

[Keira]

HRC's so full of crap they should sell it by the pound as concentrated fertiliser.

[Kt]

A trans-inclusive ENDA is the only way transpeople will get these rights, a secondary trans-only ENDA will NEVER pass in the house and senate, and everyone should know it.

[Natasha]

HRC Head: ENDA Trans Dropping A Possibility

http://www.queerty.com/hrc-head-enda-trans-dropping-a-possibility-20080404/
4/5/2008

"With ENDA's Senatorial revival, Human Rights Campaigns' Joe Solmonese again finds himself on the firing line. Solmonese got ripped apart last year after his organization abandoned the fight for trans inclusion in the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. HRC had previously pledged not to support a non-inclusive ENDA, but went back on that deal, thus sparking an ugly civil war between activists hellbent on keeping a united front and those who felt it best to take baby steps: gays first, then trans folk."

[Kaelin]

Kind of the pathetic thing is that they're treating sexual orientation and gender identity as a progression, which is absolutely nonsense.  It's kind of like extending voting rights to non-whites decades before extending them to women.  Oh wait, we did that.

On the flip side there's Iran, where sex-reassignment is legal, and homosexuality is punishable by death.

We're getting a whole lot of updates on this bill every day, and they don't seem to be promising... o_O