Should we just allow the HRC to throw us under the bus whenever it is politically expedient, just because they have helped our cause in the past.
First of all, they've barely "helped our cause in the past." I've been around long enough to see the HRC's view on ENDA since the 90s, and before 2004 at least they had the honesty to be upfront that they cared little about trans rights. You should see one of the letters to the editor I wrote in 1997 when they excluded us back then using the same rationalizations as they did last fall. The difference is that back then the HRC was telling everybody they were leaving us out for the greater good.
This time they started pledging in 2004 that they would "never" accept an ENDA that excluded us. Because of their history I would never have given one dime to the HRC, yet when they made this same pledge at a Phoenix fundraising dinner I attended with Donna Rose, Dr. Becky, Margaux Schaffer, and Dr. Meltzer and his wife, I made a $500 donation that very night. I gave more money to the HRC every year based on their constant reassurances they'd not leave us behind. They even went to trans events like SCC and made this pledge as late as last September.
Well, we all know what happened next. I won't buy any crap about "strategies, gambits, bluffs or sacrifices." We were LIED to — Period! And regard the promise they'll come back for us, why should I believe them after they lied the first time? In New York state the cut us out of their ENDA to pass "SONDA" in 2002, making the same promise. Guess what? Nothing has been done for our rights there since. Nothing.
The fact is that it wasn't the right time to introduce ENDA at all, but Pelosi and Frank did so because both were being honored at HRC dinners that month last year, and they wanted to show off. And if the tiny subgroup of trannies got fucked over in the process, well too bad for them. We don't have the big bucks to contribute or the power of the Log Cabin closet cases, so we were expendable. Were it not for the outrage of NOW and 340 LGBT organizations you can bet your bottom dollar they wouldn't have held that lip service transgender rights hearing in Congress.
Pardon me if I refuse to be understanding after I've been fucked up the ass without lubricant and nary a thank you call in the morning. If Joe Solomonese, David Smith and Barney Frank were burning on fire on the floor in front of me, I wouldn't even deign to piss on them to douse the flames. That's how furious I am with these lying political whores.
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