Dane101.com – Submitted by Emily Mills
Starting tonight with the “Transgender Monologues,” a series of events aimed at promoting awareness and education about transgender issues will take over the UW campus. Transgender Awareness Week, put on by the UW LGBT Campus Center and a number of student and community organizations, comes at a time when transgender rights have recently been in the national spotlight.
Madison’s own representative, Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin, recently authored and pushed for an amendment to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) that called for “sexual identity,” i.e. transgendered people, to be included as something employers could not discriminate against when hiring. While ENDA itself did, happily, pass (though it still faces a threatened veto from President Bush), Baldwin’s amendment didn’t receive enough support from either Democrats or Republicans to make it through.