[Rep. Barney] Frank said the whip count showed that a minority of Democrats opposing a transgender provision in the bill would give Republicans enough votes to kill a trans-inclusive bill.
We expect that of the Republicans, right? If the Democrats could get their Party in line we wouldn't be having this discussion and an all-inclusive ENDA would be a fait accompli. But for all our community's financial and voting fealty to the Democratic Party they can't muster the votes to do this? And, I would argue, transgendered persons face more open discrimination than most gays do, and there have been recent high profile cases to show it, like this one.
Surely, if you believe that people should be federally protected from discrimination because they are born to love the same gender, it's not a leap to protect people who are born into the wrong gender.
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