Voice of California Democrats on Transgender Inclusion

Posted on November 21, 2007
Filed Under lgbT |

This was adopted this past weekend by the California Democratic Party:

 

FULL EQUALITY FOR TRANSGENDER AMERICANS

WHEREAS the California Democratic Party has long stood by the principle of justice and equality for all people, regardless of gender, gender expression or sexual orientation and

 

WHEREAS Congress leaders have expressed their intent to remove non-discrimination provisions covering transgender persons from the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), the new version will mean that “you can’t be fired for being lesbian, gay or bisexual but you can be fired if your boss thinks you fit their stereotype of one,” and

 

WHEREAS transgender people are among the most marginalized and vulnerable groups within the LGBT community, with a 2006 survey if transgender people conducted by the Transgender Law Center finding that 57% reported being discriminated against in employment and 60% earned less than $15,300 a year,

 

BE IT RESOLVED that the California Democratic Party reaffirms its support for full legal equality, including anti-discrimination protection at all levels for transgender people and other members of the LGBT community who express their gender in non-normative ways,

 

AND BE IT RESOLVED that the California Democratic Party calls upon all clubs, County Central Committees, elected officials, activists as well as our friends and allies in labor and the broad progressive community to make public their support for full equality and justice.

 

 

Submitted by the Santa Barbara County Democratic Central Committee;

Daraka Larimore-Hall, Chair, Santa Barbara DCC

Adopted by CDP on 11-18-2007

E-board Meeting at Sheraton Hotel, Anaheim

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