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Title: Transgender UU champions passage of ENDA
Post by: Shana A on May 31, 2010, 12:54:19 PM
Post by: Shana A on May 31, 2010, 12:54:19 PM
Transgender UU champions passage of ENDA
New federal law would end discrimination against GLBT people in the workplace.
By Donald E. Skinner
5.31.10
http://www.uuworld.org/news/articles/165698.shtml (http://www.uuworld.org/news/articles/165698.shtml)
Allison Woolbert, 46, is one of the Unitarian Universalist Association's most vocal advocates for passage of a bill guaranteeing the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people in the workplace. Her activism is based on her own experience as a transgender person who nearly lost everything in the process of claiming her sexual identity.
As a young boy growing up in rural Arizona, Woolbert prayed to God, asking to be transformed into a girl. Instead, Woolbert endured years of gender confusion with a growing awareness that things weren't as they should be. Conservative fundamentalist church teachings only made things worse.
New federal law would end discrimination against GLBT people in the workplace.
By Donald E. Skinner
5.31.10
http://www.uuworld.org/news/articles/165698.shtml (http://www.uuworld.org/news/articles/165698.shtml)
Allison Woolbert, 46, is one of the Unitarian Universalist Association's most vocal advocates for passage of a bill guaranteeing the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people in the workplace. Her activism is based on her own experience as a transgender person who nearly lost everything in the process of claiming her sexual identity.
As a young boy growing up in rural Arizona, Woolbert prayed to God, asking to be transformed into a girl. Instead, Woolbert endured years of gender confusion with a growing awareness that things weren't as they should be. Conservative fundamentalist church teachings only made things worse.