I guess being screwed over is a rite of passage as a transgender activist/advocate. Becky Juro’s written an excellent summary of the history of dangled carrots and broken promises. Vanessa Edwards Foster explains how we’ve been suckered like this in the past and how that played out at the most recent Southern Comfort Conference.
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With passage of The Matthew Shepard Act in the Senate on Thursday, it should have been a time for celebration. But on the heels of the victory came the news that gender identity could possibly be stripped of from the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. The Advocate confirmed the story tonight saying:
“The Democratic House leadership is [...]
“So I get on my knees and pray … we won’t get fooled again!” — the Who
Fresh on the heels of Southern Comfort Conference (SCC), many of the transgender community reveled in what seemed a penultimate victory: HRC – yes, the Human Rights Campaign – was actually appearing to take the transgender community as equals. [...]
According to the Washington Blade:
“House Democratic leaders are strongly considering dropping anti-discrimination protections for transgender persons from the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, after an internal Democratic head count on Wednesday found that the bill would likely be defeated if it included the trans provision, multiple sources familiar with the bill said. “
In May of [...]
Unbelievably, I woke up to find this in a google alert:”Bringing back Hitler and the SS”
From the get go, it’s filled with lies:
“Right now we have a bill called HR 2015 that, in my opinion, would bring back forced hiring by our government for local business. Surprised, I am not.”
From the bill:
No Preferential Treatment or [...]
I’m stealing a way of posting from Autumn and Stephanie over at Abnormal Heights. With TA tidbits, I’m going to post multiple trans stories I find with just a bit of commentary in one post. So without further ado….
***A new television series debuts this fall called “The Dirty Life” that stars Billy Baldwin and [...]
Alice Dreger Destroys Academic Freedom in Order to Save It
It is an old adage that “crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.” This appears to be the thinking behind Alice Dreger’s latest attempt to stifle criticism of J. Michael Bailey’s pseudoscience in the name of “academic freedom”.
Joelle Ruby Ryan recently issued a [...]
Give ‘em an act with lots of flash in it
And the reaction will be passionate
Give ‘em the old hocus pocus ….
Give ‘em the old three ring circus”
— Richard Gere as Billy Flynn in the song “Razzle Dazzle” from the movie “Chicago”
What the hell is up with being trans?
Seriously, why is it such a heinous scandal [...]
With a vote coming soon on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, I’d like to revisit something Chris Crain said a while back in his post “A trans activist tees off on ENDA” that was in reference to my post “You Can Still Fire Me“. At his blog he said:
The EEOC says [...]
That ever popular bastion of Jesus freedom, WorldNetDaily, is hiding a Transgender Partriot! In their “Letter of the Week” they showcase the anonymous patriot. She starts out by saying
“First, before I begin, I just want to let you know that I support WND and the work you do primarily as it relates to the [...]
