Let’s Work to get an Inclusive Generally Worded ENDA Passed While We have a Chan

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Let's Work to get an Inclusive Generally Worded ENDA Passed While We have a Chance
Women Born Transsexual
By Suzan
May 11, 2010


http://womenborntranssexual.com/2010/05/11/lets-work-to-get-an-inclusive-generally-worded-enda-passed-while-we-have-a-chance/


At one point yesterday over on Pam's House Blend, Autumn wrote a somewhat panicked piece early in the day which she later retracted regarding how the TS/TG inclusive ENDA didn't specify the right to use a specific rest room or the right to a varied presentation.

She used as an indictment the writing of an inclusive ENDA using basically the sort of language that was used in extending protections in California Law.

When I attended sessions on the writing of the bill to expand hate crimes laws we worked on keeping the language general rather than too specific using terms like gender identity, gender orientation and perceived identity or orientation.  Using this sort of language leave specific legal interpretation open ended in expansion while tending to close off interpretation in a more restrictive direction.