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Q3JR4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-07-07 07:30 PM
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36. If I were in their shoes I think...
Edited on Wed Nov-07-07 07:31 PM by Q3JR4
I would have done the same thing.

Gays and lesbians have worked hard to pass ENDA or a form of it, but if it were me I would have voted against the bill as written. In my mind when you're fighting a battle you don't leave a quarter of your battalion, your people, in the war zone. The transgendered have been with us since the beginning and I don't see how throwing them under the wheels of a bus helps anyone's cause.

I agree that this bill is a gradual step in the right direction, but what message does it send to our brothers and sisters who are transgendered? They are the ones who need it the most. At a time when gays and lesbians can, as crass as it may sound, "hide" who they are to protect themselves, the Transgendered are the ones who are who they were meant to be on a daily basis.

It's a very seductive argument, help ourselves and forget about those who helped us get here, but it's also an argument that I cannot agree with. I don't know why 25 dems voted against this version of ENDA, but this would have been my reasoning for having done so.

Q3JR4.
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