The Trans Seperation AG(ENDA): Say NO, HRC

A Trans archivist says if HRC goes with a discriminatory version of ENDA, Then HRC should take the T out of the mission statement.
At the very least, Joe. HRC must know many Stonewall Citizens will leave HRC over this and take our dollars with us. Don't they?
Barney Frank does not always speak for Stonewall Citizen or the LGBT community at all times. He errs on occasion. This is one of those occasions where his political tactics, as reported since 2004, are not in the best interest of the community. Thanks, but no thanks Barney, Stonewall Citizen will tough it out with our Trans brothers and sisters.

Source: Pam's House Blend

"You don't stab a man in the back nine inches and pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.
--Malcolm X

All of the major LGBT 501(c) and civil rights organizations added a T to their mission statements. They didn't have to add T's to their mission statements, but they did. After they added the T's, they banded together and said that they "will only support ENDA if it is inclusive of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression. That said to transgender people like me that "The LGBT community is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, AND transgender community."

Rep. Barney Frank is going to submit two ENDAs next week -- actually better described as an ENDA and a GENDA. But, "Separate but equal" ENDA's aren't going to cut the mustard at this point; either transgender people are the LGBT community, or transgender people aren't. Two bills means transgender people like me are not part of the greater LGBT community. Rep. Frank is essentially saying it's not LGBT, but LGBt.

Congressional Democratic Leadership, in the form of Rep. Franks' ENDA and GENDA, has presented major LGBT 501(c) and civil rights organizations with a dilemma. Either these organizations can choose to support a single ENDA that covers both sexual orientation and gender identity, or chose not too. But, even though legislatively it may be easier and more convenient to leave transgender people out the main ENDA bill, the "separate but equal" approach to ENDA legislation will mean deep, public division for the LGBT community. It already has meant bloody havoc -- and it'll get worse.

So to the one, large, LGBT civil rights organization that has yet to announce how it's going to come down on the "separate but equal" approach to ENDA, I have this to say:

My transgender peers and I am watching you, Human Rights Campaign, for your final statement on the "separate but equal" approach to ENDA legislation. If you support the "separate but equal" approach to ENDA, I know I'll be among the first calling for you to take the T out of your mission statement. "Separate but equal" is not going to be an acceptable option at all to transgender people, their significant others, friends, families, and most of our allies."