GetEqual: It's The ENDA Summer
by: Autumn Sandeen
Sat Aug 21, 2010 at 11:15:00 AM EDT
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/17123/getequal-its-the-enda-summerThe Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) is a big deal for the transgender subcommunity of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community. If you ask most trans-identified people what the current, most important national issue is for our subcommunity, the answer will more often than not be ENDA. That we don't have either the House or Senate currently working with any diligence to pass ENDA -- that LGBTQ community still has no idea what the "bathroom language" that Rep. Barney Frank and other House member will be attaching to a final version of ENDA is going to look like, and that the President Obama has failed to be a leader and "fierce advocate" for a fully inclusive version of ENDA...
Well, I'm left wondering if our politicians know the difference between the political grapes and lettuce of the LGBTQ civil rights movement regarding employment, and the actual people who are left oppressed when Congress and the White House fail to show leadership on LGBTQ employment issues. Congress sees an LGBT employment bill; I see the oppressed people who are impacted by the passage or non-passage LGBTQ employemnt bill.
