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
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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.