Employment Non-Discrimination Act May Appear Next Week
http://transworkplace.blogspot.com/2009/06/employment-non-discrimination-act-may.html6/17/09
"We know we have a healthy majority in the House for ENDA without
transgender [protections]," he said. "So we are able now to focus our
efforts on lobbying for transgender [protections]. We don't have to do
the dual lobbying because we had that [previous] vote [on a gay-only
version of the bill]." This may be an attempt to justify his decision
to strip gender identity provisions from the bill, resulting in a vote
in favor of a sexual-orientation only bill.
