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What My San Diego Congresswoman Said; How My San Diego Congresswoman Voted

by: Autumn Sandeen

Thu Nov 08, 2007 at 20:00:00 PM EST


My Congresswoman, Rep. Susan Davis, spoke on the House Floor yesterday in strong support of a transgender inclusive ENDA.  She spoke about my close friend Vicki Estrada, and how she avoided discrimination specifically because of California's trans-inclusive anti-discrimination laws.

Yet, with the debate was over, she ended up voting for the sexual orientation only version of ENDA -- even though pretty much all of San Diego's LGBT orgaizations have stated that they have preferred congresspeople voted against the less inclusive version of ENDA.

[My thoughts on San Diego's LGBT and progressive politics regarding ENDA after the break]

Autumn Sandeen :: What My San Diego Congresswoman Said; How My San Diego Congresswoman Voted
To be honest though, our congresspeople who supported transgender inclusion in ENDA were put in the untenable position of having to choose between voting for the first LGB employment bill to ever make it to the floor of the House, or voting against that bill because it wasn't T inclusive. The vote must have been a bittersweet one for some of our LGBT supportive members.

The Democratic Leadership in the House, the 1st term Blue Dog Democrats, and the HRC (who on their annual congressional LGBT voting scorecards are going to mark down any congressperson who didn't vote for the sexual orientation only version of ENDA, even if the reason a congressperson voted against the bill because it wasn't inclusive enough), were the ones who pushed this hard choice down all of our congresspeople's throats.

We have two years until the next version of ENDA comes before the House and Senate. Here in San Diego, one of TASC's activities will be to lobby for a fully inclusive ENDA to all of San Diego County's congresspeople, hopefully beside many of our LGBT organizations; hopefully beside organizations that have incorporated their transgender board members and employees within their lobbying schemas.

Frankly, transgender people and other progressives can't take it for granted anymore that our LGBT civil rights and non-profit organizations are going to be effective or consistent lobbyists on behalf of their transgender constituints --just look at how the HRC's position morphed over the course of a couple of months.

What my congresswoman said on the House Floor, and how my congresswoman voted -- well, these tell me that TASC and San Diego's other LGBT civil rights and non-profit organizations don't have to do too much work to change my congresswoman's heart on transgender inclusion, but we have a lot of work ahead of us on successfully influencing her vote on future versions of ENDA -- especially on the version of ENDA that's voted on in 2009.

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Sounds like San Diego has come a long way
Sounds like San Diego has come a long way since I was there last in 1991 though. Clearly some progress has been made there.

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If the votes were there for a trans-inclusive ENDA, then it definitely should have been voted upon.  Maybe even without the votes there it should have been voted on so that we know where we stand.  But once ENDA came to a vote, it is not rational to expect supporters of the community to vote against it, whether inclusive or not.  Another valid objection to ENDA as passed is its overly broad religious exception... again, however, supporters of equality aren't going to vote against the bill just because it is flawed.  While the LG&B portions of the community should continue to press for versions of ENDA that are T-inclusive, it does no one any good to criticize supporters of ENDA, particularly those like Rep. Davis who will support an inclusive ENDA when it comes to a vote, for supporting the version that was on the floor.  Doing so is not only counter-productive and petty, it punishes our strongest supporters.


Hmm

The Democratic Leadership in the House, the 1st term Blue Dog Democrats, and the HRC were the ones who pushed this hard choice down all of our congresspeople's throats.

It's kinda hard to take opinion pieces seriously when claims like this are made. Place the blame where the blame is due - right on the heads of the Republicans who go about demonizing every minority they can bash to get majority votes.

Your angst is understandable, but don't let it cloud your perspective.


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