San Francisco Pride at Work

Stand for Trans Rights, an inclusive ENDA, and freedom to express our gender identities!

Boycott the Human Right's Campaign annual fundraising dinner to protest their support of a version of ENDA that would not include gender identity protections.

Saturday July 26th, 5 p.m. 

outside the Westin St. Francis Hotel in Union Square, San Francisco

Come protest HRC at our alternative protest and party. Com dressed in your most fabulous & outrageous attire!

Background information:

What are we fighting for? 
96% of Trans people living in San Francisco earn less that the median income. Trans people are disproportionately unemployed and underemployed. Discrimination against Trans and all LGBTQ people must end!

What is an inclusive ENDA?
The LGBT community and its allies have been fighting for years to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) to protect all LGBTQ people from workplace discrimination. On September 26, 2007, the proposed Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) included protections against discrimination in the workplace based on one's sexual orientation AND gender identity, but by the end of the day congressional leadership had erased gender identity protections from the proposed bill.

What's wrong with HRC?
Over 350 local and national LGBTQ organizations were quick to pull their endorsement of this new non-inclusive ENDA. These groups included PFLAG, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Lambda, the Stonewall Democrats, and National Center for Lesbian Rights, Alice B. Toklas and Harvey Milk Democratic Clubs, Pride at Work, the SF LGBT Center, the Transgender Law Center, And Castro for All.

Only ONE major LGBT organization continued to back the non-inclusive ENDA:

The Human Rights Campaign

What can we do?

The LGBTQ community working together to hold HRC accountable - Join us! The struggle for rights for trans people can not be separated from the struggle for equality for all queers. A version of ENDA that only protects workers on the basis of sexual orientation leaves behind butch lesbians, effeminate males, trans people, and any other (straight or queer) gender non-conformist. A non-inclusive ENDA would leave a huge piece of of our community as open targets in their workplaces. We must stand together to hold HRC accountable and to pass an inclusive version on ENDA in 2009.

Come show your support at The Left OUT Party: A Genderful Gayla!

Make your donations to LGBTQ organizations that support a united ENDA, NOT HRC.

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