BELIEVE IT OR WHAT: San Francisco unites for transgender inclusion in employment non-discrimination protection
14 October 2007BELIEVE IT OR WHAT
BY PAT MURPHY
Sentinel Editor & Publisher
Copyright © 2007 San Francisco Sentinel
San Francisco united Friday insisting pragmatism spring from principle in the national debate on extending employment non-discrimination protection to transgender people.
A day earlier, gay Democratic Congressman Barney Frank had criticized those who do not agree with Frank’s preference to remove transgenders from the new Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), thereby improving chance of ENDA passage, maintained Frank.
Pragmatism will improve protection for millions of Americans while only hundreds of thousands of American would remain yet unprotected, Frank explained.
And on Friday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reported the ENDA draft not covering transgender people will advance for Congressional consideration this week.
Behind the scenes, San Francisco’s Nancy Pelosi is said to be working for inclusion of transgender protection.
And the full range of San Francisco leadership promptly stood as one Friday backing transgender inclusion, including San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris , San Francisco Assessor Phil Ting, California State legislators, and Democratic Party leadership in this very Democratic town.
Their decision is not another example of San Francisco leading the nation and transgender people are not another class of people with bruised feelings.
Transgenders are a class of people murdered with de facto impunity, even before considering their 70% unemployment rate a problem to ponder.
By will and backing of the people of San Francisco, this City’s move to pragmatic reach for propserity and security embraces everyone.
As always, San Francisco stands firm on the lonely cutting edge of respite for the nation’s unloved.
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PAT MURPHY
Sentinel Editor & Publisher
In his youth, Pat Murphy worked as a General Assignment reporter for the Richmond Independent, the Berkeley Daily Gazette, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He served as Managing Editor of the St. Albans (Vermont) Daily Messenger at age 21. Murphy also launched ValPak couponing in San Francisco, as the company’s first San Francisco franchise owner. He walked the bricks, developing ad strategy for a broad range of restaurants and merchants. Pat knows what works and what doesn’t work. His writing skill has been employed by marketing agencies, including Don Solem & Associates. He has covered San Francisco governance for the past ten years. Pat scribes an offbeat view of the human family through Believe It or What. Email Pat at SanFranciscoSentinel@yahoo.com.
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