After ENDA, the Fighter's Resilient
By: DUNCAN OSBORNE
03/06/2008
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Mara Keisling, who heads the National Center for Transgender Equality, recognizes that counting and having the votes are the keys.
Seated before a crowd of roughly 50 at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center, Mara Keisling opened with a joke.
"I had a not-so-friendly experience a couple of weeks ago. I went to an ex-gay conference," said the executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE). "I thought it was an ex-guy conference." If a drummer's rim shot had followed that punch line, she would have sounded like a Las Vegas comedy act from the '60s.