Include transgender people in ENDA Petition : [ powered by iPetitions.com ]

#	Name	Comments
51	Dr. Kelley Winters	As a retired businesswoman from a Fortune 11 corporation and a transsexual woman, I have faced workplace discrimination and was heartbroken by your decision to exclude people born like me from the ENDA bill. If you were to actually meet and speak with transgender individuals, you would come to know us as human beings and productive citizens rather than stereotypes or political liability. I urge you to take time to listen to transgender employees before closing your mind on this crucial issue. I would be happy to meet with you at your convenience, if you would care to talk.
52	richard grossman
53	Kimberly Carver
54	Stuart Rosenstein	In 2007, we as a community cannot be split. The whole point of ENDA is create equality, not separation. Our non-GLBT family members have all the rights and those in power want to continue splitting our community. No to leaving out our Transgender family members.
55	Dave Waugh	An employment non-discrimination act should include both sexual orientation and gender identity under one law.
56	Shane Huckstadt
57	Anonymous	Dear Madam Speaker; I must tell you that as a life long and politically active Democrat I was, and continue to be, grateful for your leadership with both the House and the Democratic Party. Up until this point I have had unwavering admiration for your skill in leading the House with a fresh Democratic majority. I look to your leadership with the recent Hate Crimes bill as an excellent example. I can only imagine how difficult it has been with such an unwaveringly arrogant Executive to contend with. However, I must tell you that today’s news of the decision to strike gender identity from ENDA is very disappointing. As I understand it, you have chosen to differ to Representative Frank on this critical decision. Representative Frank is simply dead wrong about this bill. At what cost? He is wrong about the fracture this will cause within the GLBT community, and the fallout within the caucus. All for a bill way can only hope THIS President might sign, and only if attached to a defense appropriations bill. I thought Representative Frank was more strategically adept than this. I certainly know you are. I urge you to reconsider. I urge you to impress upon Representative Frank that this path will lead to a schism. We must stand united. Respectfully yours, Anthony Sandonato Ft. Lauderdale, FL Sandona@bellsouth.net
58	Diana Langton	Please don't exclude transgender people from EDNA. We don't HAVE the numbers of other marginalized groups to lobby effectively ourselves.
59	Wes Quesenberry
60	Alison Gill
61	Lisa Kassner
62	Mark Freeman
63	Phyllis Cudmore	As a Regional Coordinator for PFLAG New England all people deserve protection under ENDA and no one should be discriminated against due to Sexual orientation or Gender Identity. PFLAG will not support ant bill thats is not trans inclusive
64	Alishia Ouellette, Massachusetts	Dear Speaker, As a trans woman, a Firefighter and an active member of my community I strongly feel that I and others like me deserve to be protected with the same rights as any other citizen of this great country. Alishia Ouellette Danvers, Mass Fire Department
65	Sheri A. Swokowski
66	Nikki Hatch	As a transgender person, I am appalled at the exclusion of gender identity/ expression to ENDA. I'm extremely disappointed with the Democratic leadership in Congress, most specifically Barney (Rubble) Frank, a total sell out and Nancy Pelosi.
67	David Strand	As a gay man who has been put in the position of facing job discirmination where it is not illegal in this country(Michigan), I stand in solidarity with my transgender friends and members of my community in not supporting a bill which doesn't include gender identity as well as sexual orientation.
68	Christine schneider
69	Deanna Selby
70	Rachel Giada Camarda	As a Transgender, more so a Transsexual,I do not know how you think splitting this so very much needed bill in two. This is only create more issues. Please I ugre you "the House leadership" to keep original transgender-inclusive ENDA. Please do notruin our hopes and chances to be on equal footing.
71	Joseph Korsak	I am transgender and i lost my job ..you have to stop this ! please....i loved my job i really did and now i am nothing but a burden please help me
72	Terry N=McCorkell
73	Kelli williams	I am bisexual, gender normative, a Democrat and NOT TRANS. However I will never support a version of ENDA that does not protect trans people. I am proud to be part of the LGBT community and will never accept a law that does not protect ALL the members of our community.
74	(Rev.) Lynn Walker
75	Debra Oppenheimer
76	Jillian Barfield	PLEASE don't remove transgender from ENDA!
77	Jacqui Charvet	I am a transgendered woman. When I came out to my employer I was immediately terminated because this bill was not in place. It took me over 3 1/2 years WITHOUT PAY to find a new job. I have lost all of my retirement and my partner due to not having this type of protection. SHAME ON YOU for undoing in one day what its taken years of work by a solidarity of LGBT leaders to put into place.. How dare any of you lecture us on what its like........ I live this hell every day. The pledge states" and Justice FOR ALL".....I am part of that ALL........ I work hard AND PAY MY TAXES. Its time for our leadership to stand up to some hard battles, I live one every day. I will work TIRELESSLY to have ANY VERSION of this bill FAIL if transgender is not included......AND WILL DONATE TO YOUR OPPONENT when you come up for reelection if you allow this to happen.
78	Kenneth Dollarhide	Please support the transgener community. We are the people who also support you.
79	Robin G Schneider
80	Vanessa Sheridan	Transgender people across the nation are counting on you to stand up to bigotry and discrimination. We need you to be there for us. Please don't let us down.
81	Sonia John
82	Anonymous
83	Rev.Reg Richburg,LMSW
84	Grace Sterling Stowell
85	Chris Roebuck
86	Maureen Nelson	It's critical that transgender people have legal protection from being fired, passed over for promotion or not hired at all because of their gender identity or expression. Haven't they suffered enough? I am a career counselor who specializes in transgender clients -- my clients just want decent jobs so they can contribute to society. Please eliminate employment injustice by introducing the full version of ENDA!
87	Patrick Paschall
88	Marisa Richmond, Ph.D.	As an historian, I am disturbed that this country has not learned the lessons of the past. It was reprehensible that women were excluded from the 14th and 15th Amendments in the Nineteenth Century. The tactics of exclusion are just as reprehensible in the 21st Century. Marisa Richmond, Ph.D. Nashville, Tennessee
89	Sky Anderson	Speaker Pelosi, I am writing to ask you to speak out against this injustice. I am convinced that you understand very clearly what this means to those of us who will pay the price for this, Please do all you can to stop this...please do what you can to stop this split. November is the time we celebrate Transgender Day of Remembrance. Last year we honored 10 people who had been killed, 1 a month, and not counting those who had been violated. One was a 4 year old boy whose father beat him to death trying to drive the effeminate behavior from him. Who will save the next one of us, our children? We need to know you will do all you can to correct this. Sky Anderson........
90	Anonymous
91	Michael Williams	This is extremely important that the ENDA include transgender people not just for the trans community but for all communities protected under this legislature. If this bill pases and transgendered people are excluded then whats to say that lesbians aren't next? gays? bisexuals? people of color? women? It sets the precendent for more exclusion instead of inclusion and I strongly support fully including everyone of minorities under the ENDA
92	Nicolas Winter
93	Michelle Hughes	Why is it ok to discriminate against transgendered people? We were born with a birth defect that we are trying to correct. When will society understand that?
94	Don Romesburg	As a professor of Women's and Gender Studies, I know how crucial these protections are for all people. Gender identity discrimination can affect many of us, transgender and otherwise. Many gays and lesbians, if protected from sexual orientation discrimination, could still potentially face gender identity discrimination. We cannot deny workplace rights for the sake of expedient political shell games. Either we all secure protections together or we wait until our elected resprsenatives can embrace workplace rights for all. We must keep demanding nothing less.
95	Melinda Green
96	Julie Nemecek
97	Leigh Anne Richards
98	Patricia Kevena Fili	I am opposed to the actions of Congressional leadership to eliminate gender identity from the latest version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). It is outrageous that Congressional leadership would for all intensive purposes, throw Transgender people under the bus. Just a day earlier, the Senate overwhelmingly approved Hate Crimes Legislation that is gender identity inclusive. It is incredulous that this action would be taken without the consult of national LGBT organizations and the communities that they represent. Democracy means including all, protecting us all and referring to the leadership of communities for wisdom and counsel. I pray that Congressional leadership will see the error they made and correct it.
99	Joanne Nemecek
100	Leigh Anne Richards