Penna Dexter
Posted on Nov 15, 2007
BPNews (http://www.bpnews.net/BPFirstPerson.asp?ID=26841)
"Yet the homosexual lobby's 15-plus-year quest to pass this legislation almost disintegrated from within. The bill's sponsor, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass), was accused of "throwing transgenders under the bus" when he made a realistic political calculation to change his bill to omit them from the protections afforded by the bill. It seems some freshman Democrats didn't want to go to the mat for cross-dresser rights, in which employers would have to allow bathroom privileges to employees based on their stated current perceptions of their gender identity. (In other words, it wouldn't necessarily be just women using the women's restroom.)"
Karen