ENDA Passes Without Gender Identity
Yesterday, ENDA passed the House without "gender identity." As you may recall, although this term's original version of ENDA, HR 2015, included both sexual orientation and gender identity, two separate bills were later introduced, one including only sexual orientation (HR 3685) and one including only gender identity (HR 3686). HR 3685 was sent out from committee, and it was debated and passed yesterday.
http://transworkplace.blogspot.com/2007/11/enda-passes-without-gender-identity.htmlI'm a transgender guy and
Dammit right now I want to scream at Nancy fucking Pelosi and Barney Frank...enfurter!! All because rich businessmen whine about having to spend a little money remodeling ...So what do they do, they seek to cut us trans-people OUT of an anti discriminatory protections for gay people. They whine about ramps for disabled people too,but noo we are not even equal to disabled people to greedy business right now..We are apparently are not worth being treated as equal human beings to some fuck faces in congress ..Because of this stupid all must bow to the goddamn businessman....Well fuck THAT!! I am pissed now.Hate the rich authoritarian pigs don't coddle them..They'll rob us all blind and take our rights away without a drop of shame .
Talking Points on ENDA
ENDA Must Contain Explicit Protections for Gender Identity
* ENDA should protect the entire gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community from unequal treatment in the workplace, especially those of us who are most vulnerable to discrimination.
* The LGBT community is one community, and we want to move forward, together, in one bill.
* Including explicit protections against discrimination based on gender identity not only helps transgender people; it also strengthens ENDA for the rest of our community by ensuring that an employer cannot fire or refuse to hire a gay employee for an “effeminate” walk or a lesbian employee for dressing “too butch.”
* Despite advances in protecting transgender people on the state and local level, as well as in the private sector, it remains perfectly legal in 37 states to fire someone solely based on his or her gender identity.
* Recent national surveys have found that 65% of people believe it should be illegal to discriminate against transgender people in employment.
Talking Points on the Baldwin Amendment
Political Talking Points
* Our group is a part of United ENDA, a coalition of over 300 organizations with a collective membership of over 2 million LGBT and allied people. Over the last 3 weeks, these groups have urged Congress to oppose a sexual-orientation only ENDA (HR 3685) and instead either move the original ENDA (H.R. 2015) or consider no bill this year.
* The Baldwin amendment is House leadership’s last attempt to fix the damage that they have done to passing the original ENDA over the last few weeks.
* The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community is one community and the community ONLY wants to move forward together with one unified bill.
Substantive Amendment Talking Points
* The Baldwin amendment restores the Employment Non-Discrimination Act to its original language regarding gender identity. The gender identity protections are necessary to protect the entire lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community from discrimination.
* Transgender people are especially in need of gender identity discrimination protections. A survey conducted in Washington, D.C., showed that 60 percent of transgender respondents report either no source of income or incomes of less than $10,000 per year, a clear indication of the desperate need for employment protections for transgender people.
* The leading LGBT litigation organizations (Lambda Legal, National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders), and the ACLU, have issued joint legal analysis that explains that gender non-conforming people (whether lesbian, gay, bisexual or straight) would also not be fully protected by an ENDA that does not prohibit gender identity discrimination.
* Transgender-inclusive laws have passed on the local and state level, even in conservative places. Nationally, 37% of the U.S. population lives in a jurisdiction with a transgender-inclusive law. For example, the states of Iowa, Colorado, and Oregon passed inclusive laws this year and lawmakers in three Kentucky jurisdictions (Covington, Louisville/Jefferson County, and Lexington-Fayette Urban County) have all passed these laws.