In case you were wondering (non-inclusive ENDA vote results in House)

[boisestudley]

Task Force, Inc., responds to House passage of non-inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act

“When confronted with the possibility of Congress moving forward with a bill that stripped out protections for transgender people, the activist and grassroots backbone of our movement responded almost instantaneously in unprecedented numbers with

Comments

[spiralsongkat]

Political savvy...yeah. Sigh. I wish it hadn't had to be that way.

[dcdragon67]

yeah, crap. there's something going on in montgomery county, too; are you all working on that? i got up to a crazy email that was addressed to the pta listserves at several schools which was full of hate and fear mongering against transgendered people. I was glad to see it was immediately followed by several people who actually signed names (unlike the first one) calling it for the crap it was.

i'm glad you're working on this.

[dcdragon67]

to clarify (i'm admittedly still bleary). i think that what's happening is montgomery county is trying to pass a law that will allow equal access to facilities by transgendered people (i.e., women can use women's facilities, men can use men's facilities, no matter the birth genitalia) and some crazy person/group sent out an evil diatribe trying to get people to fight this bill.

ok, here it is

[dcdragon67]

sorry to co-opt your entry, but i'm sure not all who read yours read mine and i was afraid i was unclear. i shouldn't try to talk/type in the AM

http://www.gazette.net/stories/110707/montnew52839_32360.shtml