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Started by Hazumu, May 27, 2008, 01:42:23 AM
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QuoteStrategically, the vast majority of trans activists and most LGBTQ organizations see things coming down to three possible paths. 1. We come together and make a push for an inclusive ENDA which would likely pass between 2009 and 2011. (Given what happened last fall, perhaps a year or two later). 2. The HRC pushes for a broken ENDA, which will likely pass in 2009 or 2011. Gender identity and expression aren't added until between 2020 and 2040. 3. The HRC pushes for a broken ENDA, the activist community and other LGBTQ organizations fight to kill it. Infighting prevents anything from being passed until between 2015 and 2020.Looking at these options, a broken ENDA and the decade(s) long delay of gender identity protections that it would bring is the biggest threat to trans rights on the political docket. Nothing that the religious right has on their agenda could knock back trans rights like this. I hope that this prediction is wrong. But in all the time since last fall, all the HRC press releases, community forums, and the coordinated attempt to persuade the trans community dubbed "project win back," I've never even heard an attempt to refute this prediction, I've only heard the assertion, without any supportive reasoning, that it is wrong.
