How many times have the trans community heard that. It was the mantra of Gay Inc. when they threw us under the bus… we will come back for you.
All around the country sexual orientation anti-discrimination legislation was passed after dropping us from the bill and they all promised to come back and pass protections for us, in many states we are still waiting.
They also passed a law banning conversion therapy for minors joining Connecticut and thirteen other states.
In 2016 the LGBT organization gave up trying to pass the legislation and declared victory with the executive order by the governor, but we all know how easy it is to overturn an executive order.
So what did it take to change the state Senate?
It took an election and the “Women’s Wave” to bring about the change.
All around the country sexual orientation anti-discrimination legislation was passed after dropping us from the bill and they all promised to come back and pass protections for us, in many states we are still waiting.
New York legislature passes historic bill against transgender discriminationFinally!
CBS News
By Grace Segers
January 15, 2019
The New York Legislature passed a historic bill Tuesday making gender identity a protected class in areas of housing, employment, and public accommodation, protecting transgender people from discrimination.
Democrats in the state legislature have tried to pass the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, or GENDA, for 16 years, but the bill was repeatedly shot down in the historically Republican-controlled state Senate. As Democrats took a sweeping majority in the state Senate in the 2018 election, they are now taking advantage of complete control of the state government by enacting progressive policies.
In 2016, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order directing the New York State Division of Human Rights to adopt regulations protecting transgender individuals from discrimination. GENDA codifies those protections into the New York Human Rights law. The bill also added protections on the basis of gender identity to the state's hate crimes law.
They also passed a law banning conversion therapy for minors joining Connecticut and thirteen other states.
In 2016 the LGBT organization gave up trying to pass the legislation and declared victory with the executive order by the governor, but we all know how easy it is to overturn an executive order.
So what did it take to change the state Senate?
It took an election and the “Women’s Wave” to bring about the change.
My goodness it sure took NY a long, long time. I remember back in the day hell way back in the day when folks were fighting for inclusion and were being block by the G and L community every step of the way. Awful fight. Early days check out the GAA response to Trans inclusion. I remember Sylvia Rivera on her death bed pleading with Joe Grabarz and Matt Foreman for inclusion and being sent back to the bumper of the bus by those two straight white mainstream gay men. And no one likes to admit it we had the same problem here in Ct. before passing the so called "gay rights bill in 1991. The archives can speak volumes on the who was who on that and the real reasons some of the so called prominent members of the G and L community were against it. (I suppose most liberals would say we should be thankful that they finally made some room for the Trans community.) I remember shaking my head at that time, leaving the movement and saying, "If all of us can't have our rights I don't want mine." Once we begin studying our real stories and setting the record queer there will be no denying, no re-writing of history and many will be, as should be knocked off their pedestals and high horses. One thing let us be clear on we can not always blame the republicans for blocking meaningful legislation as many times it is our own people ( our own people,that is debatable and most times it is in name only) that block all of our community for full rights. Such as been the case of Transgender inclusion in a NY state.
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