Gay leaders leaving behind transgenders
”Sexuality is a tricky question…. You get into transgender—it embraces all of that—and you have people’s fear and dislike of things that are different. Nobody is more different to an average person than a transgender person, and that makes them nervous….. [Transgender groups] haven’t done any lobbying yet…. They insist the gay community will do it, and they are wrong to say the gay community will do it. They have done a very bad job.”
Sen Barney Frank (D-MA), as quoted by a Village Voice article that explores the gay community’s tendency to sacrafice transgender inclusion to achieve equal rights legislation. Also quoted in the article are opinions from Mara Keisling, Kai Wright, Matt Foreman and others. (The Village Voice)
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