BayWindows.com – by Gunner Scott, Holly Ryan, and M. Barusch on behalf of the steering committee of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition
As members of the LGBT and ally community, we believe that it is vital that our community hold out for an Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) that provides job protections on the basis of both gender identity and sexual orientation, and to oppose any bill that leaves out part of the LGBT community. It is more important that our entire community be protected all at once than it is to gain a few inadequate protections for a select few.
Here are five reasons for why we cannot allow the legislative leadership or some LGBT leaders to support a bill with only sexual orientation protections now and wait to “come back” for gender identity protections later:
All of the leading LGBT legal organizations say that the fractured bills have additional loopholes.