Khadijah Farmer Case Points Out Need For Inclusive ENDA
Filed by: Monica Roberts
May 14, 2008 1:30 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/05/khadijah_farmer_case_points_out_need_for.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2008/05/khadijah_farmer_case_points_out_need_for.php)
Khadijah Farmer settled her legal case yesterday, and I hope HRC, Sen. Ted Kennedy and Rep Barney Frank were paying attention. But I doubt it.
To refresh your memory banks, Projectors, on what happened, we'll set the way back machine to June 24, 2007 and the end of the New York GLBT pride parade.
Khadijah, her partner Joelle Evans and a friend decided to go to the Caliente Cab Company restaurant to grab a bite to eat. When Khadijah went to the restroom, a male bouncer stormed into the women's room after her and ordered her to leave. Despite showing him a New York ID card that identified her as female, he insisted that Farmer leave, then ejected their party from the restaurant.
ENDA wouldn't have protected her even if it was passed with full inclusiveness. Isn't it about employment practices and not the everyday discrimination, like what happened to Khadijah Farmer. But I do agree that we are discriminated in the job force and if ENDA had passed they might have thought twice about raiding the rest room for illicit pottying.