| # | Name | Comments |
|---|
| 1 | Mara Keisling | |
| 2 | Cecilia Chung | |
| 3 | Masen Davis | |
| 4 | Kenneth Sherrill | |
| 5 | Pauline Park | |
| 6 | Eric Marshall | |
| 7 | Diana Williamson | |
| 8 | Isabelle Saint-Pierre | |
| 9 | Megan Davidson | |
| 10 | jeri hughes | failure to include the transgender community in this bill
is a partnership in prejudice. the message you are sending is that the transgender community is less deserving of fair and equal treatment. shame! what is next - transgender water fountains? shame! |
| 11 | Denise E. Brogan-Kator | If we march in lock-step on this issue, we might fail. We have failed before. Do not throw transgender people off the bus. Remain constant to the ideal of protection for all people. If we fail this time, try again. Don't give in to a devil's compromise. |
| 12 | Susan Stryker | Please do not pass this flawed version of ENDA; any meaningful non-discrimination act must include gender identity. |
| 13 | Michael Nulty | |
| 14 | Deja Nicole Greenlaw | |
| 15 | Eden Gassaway | |
| 16 | Joseph Hapac | |
| 17 | Helen Boyd | |
| 18 | Melissa Kenny | I am appalled that the Democratic party would toss people like me aside after all this. I have loyally supported the party, at the ballot box and through donations, but I will have to question my support from here on. If Democrats will not support the transgender community, then who will? |
| 19 | Darci Bonsen | |
| 20 | Anonymous | |
| 21 | Anonymous | I'm especially unhappy with this,because both of these
legislative measures are going to be vetoed and NOT
over-ridden,so why not just throw us a bone?
It won't get driven out of office for this issue. |
| 22 | Virginia Stephenson | Transgender people are the most discriminated against. Please do not lock us out of this important legislation. |
| 23 | Ruth Lane | |
| 24 | G A Kwan | |
| 25 | Dawning Chung | Do not take the T out!!! |
| 26 | Shawn Onsgard | |
| 27 | John Otto | Transpeople MUST be included in a single ENDA bill covering both sexual orientation and gender identity. I am appalled that Rep. Pelosi would even consider anything less. |
| 28 | Anonymous | |
| 29 | Amy Phillips | "Aren't we all created equal?" Prove it by signing this into law as is! |
| 30 | Thomas Lewis | This bill would affect so many more people than the thousands who actively identify as transgender. However, those who do are routinely fired from jobs or harrassed into leaving. Please stand with those citizens who only want what other Americans want on the job - to be judged by the work they do, and not discriminated against for being who they are. |
| 31 | Danielle Askini | Dear Speaker Pelosi,
As a transgender person and as a hard working activist, I am appalled that the Democratic leadership would take such a drastic step to divide a community that has stood strongly together throughout many historical fights. While working for the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence, I first hand researched the problem of discrimination in Maine just before our history statewide non-discrimination law was passed. That law was passed by an 11% margin after the results of our study came forward. Nearly 65% of the Transgender people we interviewed had been flat out refused jobs because of their transgender status. This number was far greater than those people who identified as Gay (51%) Lesbian (44%) or Bisexual (23%). Stripping this bill of gender identity inclusive language sends a clear message to our community "We only value the part of your community that is politically convenient." I implore you Speaker Pelosi, urge the leadership and members of your party to take a stand against bigotry, hatred, and divisive politics that threatens to split our community. Take the counsel of LGBT organizations serious when they urge you to keep the language in.
Thank you for all the amazingly hard work you and the leadership have done to pass the Hate Crimes Act.
With warmest regards,
Danielle Askini MSW
Transgender Health Coordinator
Verbena Health
Seattle, WA
206.323.6540 ext. 6 |
| 32 | Heather Lane | |
| 33 | Simon Aronoff | |
| 34 | cubbie storm | |
| 35 | Jillian Weiss | Associate Professor of Law and Society
Ramapo College of New Jersey |
| 36 | Renee Simousek | |
| 37 | Harry Nagendra | Do not dare divide our community. We will not compromise in this way. The movement cannot, must not exclude transgender people EVER AGAIN! |
| 38 | Moof Mayeda | |
| 39 | Kathy Padilla | |
| 40 | Hale Thompson | Thank you for your consideration. |
| 41 | Tobi Hill-Meyer | |
| 42 | Jocelyn Asheigh | It's a sad day when America is okay with suppressing any one of her own citizens. |
| 43 | Maeve O'Connor | |
| 44 | Elizabeth Walters | This will be another case of your utter hypocrisy and cowardice!!! You are supposed to be trying to protect people who are being persecuted, DAILY!!!
For once do the right thing!!!!! |
| 45 | Anonymous | Why must I be a second class(at best) citizen? |
| 46 | Joseph Vess | Transgender people should not be further marginalized, I support their inclusion in a comprehensive ENDA. |
| 47 | Anonymous | Why must I be a second class(at best) citizen? |
| 48 | Kaitlyn Johnson | |
| 49 | Dawn Marcia Wilson | Transgendered people (like myself) are generally lumped into the same category as lesbian, gay, and bisexual people by the uneducated masses, even though gender identity, not sexual orientation, is our "problem". Because of this it has become necessary for Transgerdered (T) people to join forces with Lesbian (L), Gay (G), and Bisexual (B) people to fight discriminatory attitudes and practices. An excellent example of this is the Billy DeFrank LGBT Community Center in San Jose. For this same reason, non-discrimination laws should be written to include 'T' under the same umbrella that protects 'LGB'.
Please take action to ensure that 'T' is included with 'LGB' in the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) that is currently under construction in the Congress. |
| 50 | Joan Stratton | I was assured by everyone I spoke with in the congressional offices in May that gender identity would be included in ENDA. my faith in my representatives will be sorely shaken if it is not. I hate to be lied to, |