When Mara Keisling of NCTE publically came out in support of Maryland’s gender identity anti-discrimination bill, I wondered […]
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There’s a recurrent story that is going through the gossip circles during the Christmas season in trannyland. It goes like this:
Barney Frank and the Human Rights Campaign really got their clocks cleaned by the United ENDA controversy, and now that they’ve really learned their lesson! Good ole’ St. Frank and the HRC’s equality elves will surprise everyone and come on board by supporting a fully inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) and opposing any version that doesn’t include everyone.
There’s only one problem with that dream/fantasy/rumor… it ain’t true!
Is one of the key players in the United ENDA movement, Mara Keisling, signaling its death? Recently Keisling said:
‘We have to show Barney Frank 220 votes,’ she said. ‘If we show him 220 votes, nobody is going to work harder on this. The same with HRC… It’s going to happen again next year. ‘- After ENDA, the Fighter’s Resilient
According to Donna Rose’s blog :
3/1/2008 – They’re currently planning to hold hearings in Congress specifically about transgender workplace issues in April. Whereas original plans were to tightly control those hearings, Rep. Frank has largely turned over control of gathering the stories to NCTE/Mara Keisling (who’s home in DC with pneumonia). Mara has been diligently working with many of us to identify potential speakers who can come to Washington DC to speak and I expect she’ll be finalizing that to give to Barney shortly.