The "bathroom bill" bigots
To win passage of ENDA, says Sherry Wolf, activists need to be ready to counter the bigots' lies.
Column: Sherry Wolf
April 29, 2010
http://socialistworker.org/2010/04/29/bathroom-bill-bigots (http://socialistworker.org/2010/04/29/bathroom-bill-bigots)
A CULTURAL storm is brewing on the horizon over the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would finally provide workplace rights currently denied to most LGBT people. Right now, only 21 states and the District of Columbia mandate workplace protections for sexual orientation, a mere 12 states provide legal protection for gender identity.
ENDA would extend federal employment discrimination protections currently provided based on race, religion, sex, national origin, age and disability to sexual orientation and gender identity. It is urgently needed.
As a transgender-inclusive ENDA makes its way through Congress in coming weeks, the good money is on it passing easily through the House and being stonewalled in the Senate.