Thursday, January 1, 2009
A Trans Political Reflection And Goodbye To 2008
Posted by Vanessa Edwards Foster at 6:18 PM
http://transpolitical.blogspot.com/2009/01/trans-political-reflection-and-goodbye.htmlThe New Year is upon us and it's time for both reflection and looking ahead. It's been a truly uplifting and historic year for us. We worked on and witnessed America elect its first non-white male President ever, Barack Obama! For the transgender community, we actually had a very active hand in participating in and seeing this come to fruition!
"Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?" — Auld Lang Syne, Robert Burns
A number of our community's leadership participated in the Obama Transgender Steering Committee, including names like Pauline Park, Donna Rose, Donna Cartwright and Marti Abernathey (Marti of course became the first trans delegate from Indiana – and for Obama). Even on the LGBT Advisory Committee post-election, we had a prominent, well-respected trans leader, Marsha Botzer, involved and likely a big part of what eventually became the announced Executive Order on federal hiring by the upcoming Administration: the first *ever* to explicitly prevent discrimination based on gender identity or expression!
