Between the Lines: Bill leaves out transgendered

Media.www.StudentPrintz.com – Jennifer Morgan

Two weeks ago, I wrote about the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2007, a bill in Congress that will extend current workplace discrimination laws to the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgendered community.

Today I am writing to tell you that Congress, in yet another brilliant move, has taken a bill that is supposed to prevent discrimination, and tainted it with their own form of discrimination.

Congress announced last week that it will change the language of the current bill to only include sexual orientation. This means that if passed I, and others from the lesbian, gay and bi-sexual community, will be protected, but once again our brothers and sisters in the transgendered community will suffer intentional discrimination at the hands of our government.