do you support trans rights?

Signal-boosted from srl.

If so, please do one thing on Monday morning (tomorrow), as soon as you can: call Capitol Hill. If you live anywhere in the US, you can do this.

Here's the situation: Congress is getting ready to pass a federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act that includes gay men, lesbians, and bi folks but leaves trans people behind. Barney Frank, who's gay himself, has announced that the only way to get ENDA to pass is to leave out The Trans, and Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democratic leadership in the House seems to be on board with this.

All the major GLBT organizations-- PFLAG, Pride@Work (labor), NGLTF--- have gone on record saying that they're not okay with the Democrats' decision. Even HRC, which has in the past ridden the we're-just-like-you "moderate" bandwagon, is on board with a trans-inclusive ENDA, and they've issued a statement of their consternation:

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