Trans Women Included: President Obama Announces White House Council on Women and Girls
by: Autumn Sandeen
Thu Mar 12, 2009 at 08:00:00 AM EDT

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I saw the news on this on MSNBC on Wednesday, then checked my email -- in my inbox was the press release and the executive order for the White House announcementPresident Obama Announces White House Council On Women And Girls: President Obama Announces White House Council On Women And Girls.

Conservative women's groups apparently felt snubbed. He invited over a hundred women and girls to participate in an announcement ceremony -- representing a wide swath of women's and girls' organizations -- but apparently the White House left representatives of the Concerned Women For America and the Independent Women's Forum off the guest list.

However, one woman who was invited as a representative for folk like me was Mara Keisling of the National Center For Transgender Equality (NCTE). Apparently, the President wanted to send a message to the trans community that he considers trans women to be among the women included in the goals of this initiative:

Sometimes I just get these terrible urges that I cannot quite forego.

Let's see, how to salve this one?

Mara Kiesling, hmmm, transsexual, right? NCTE. National Center for Transgender Education, right? President Obama including women with a transsexing history among other women (first time ever a POTUSA has done that, right)?

Better leave it there and come to conclusions in private. Just think on this though folks. Perhaps all isn't unrelievedly disasterous.

Nichole