HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN: Enact a Concrete Plan of Action Ending Transphobia/Gende

[Shana A]

HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN: Enact a Concrete Plan of Action Ending Transphobia/Gender Bias at HRC

        Petition by
        Allison Woolbert
        Princeton, NJ

http://www.change.org/petitions/human-rights-campaign-enact-a-concrete-plan-of-action-ending-transphobia-gender-bias-at-hrc?utm_campaign=share_button_action_box&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition#share
   
After so many years of the same embarrassing and costly slaps at the transgender community, HRC has continued to not address the root problem within their organization – transphobia and gender bias. This is simply unacceptable on all levels and threatens the very foundations of equality and directly harms and continues the oppression to the transgender community.

HRC has a fundamental oppression problem within its culture and behavior. Calling for equality for the transgender community while simultaneously suppressing the community is hypocritical and severely damaging to the very individuals they solicit funds to defend.

Being a global leader in the equality rights movement in the United States requires a standard of behavior that represents ALL individuals without oppressing the very groups HRC claims to be working for and soliciting funding for.

A cultural shift is required within the organization- this petition calls for a transparent and documented public process by HRC to provide for:

[gennee]

I refuse to have anything to do with the Human Rights Campaign. It's part of the problem with many mainstream LGBT organizations. It's predominately male and white. How do you justify Joe Solmonese pulling in over 350Gs a year and he hasn't done much about gay rights much less trans rights.


The Human Rights Campaign has done a great job at looking presentable before its corporate supporters but hasn't done a damned thing for transgender people. I don't expect anything from them in the future either.