Monday, December 07, 2009
The recession won't be over until ENDA is passed
Posted by Harper Jean Tobin at 4:29 PM
http://nctequality.blogspot.com/2009/12/recession-wont-be-over-until-enda-is.htmlThe road to passing federal legislation can be long and arduous, and to some extent this is simply the nature of the beast – the beast, in this case, being our national legislature. We do well to remember, however, that while we are waiting and working to overcome this or that procedural hurdle in Congress, transgender Americans are facing blatant discrimination right now.
Case in point: today the New York-based Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund filed a complaint with the Florida Human Relations Commission on behalf of Zikerria Bellamy, a young trans woman in Orlando. Zikerria applied for a job at a local McDonald's in July, but she never got an interview. Instead, she got a vicious transphobic voice mail message from a McDonald's manager, stating that they would never hire someone like her.
