raspberryflavored: Also important things that happened today with the US General Election:...

raspberryflavored:

Also important things that happened today with the US General Election:

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- Maine and Maryland have voted for marriage equality
- Minnesota DID NOT vote for banning marriage equality
- Washington has it on the ballot as well, but it hasn’t come in yet

- The first openly gay senator was…

Uh guys, her amendment was actually FOR including transgender rights in ENDA. She supported Barney Frank, who originally proposed the inclusive element. Check out this video of her proposal; she says it explicitly. However, she had to withdraw it. Admittedly the reasons for this were unclear to me. In the Transadvocate article, the writer stated that ENDA could lose protection for transgender individuals. Barney Frank brought the amendment up again (see below) and transgender individuals are protected under the bill.

So no, she’s not a transphobic lesbian throwing transgender people under the bus. She actually wants transgender rights included in the bill. Here is the opposition, which argues that the ENDA in total is against religious freedom. 

Also note that these videos and the article are from 2007. I did a quick look-up of the current status of ENDA. From Wikipedia:

In 2009, following Democratic gains in the 2008 elections, and after the divisiveness of the 2007 debate, Rep. Barney Frank introduced a transgender-inclusive version of ENDA. He introduced it again in 2011, and Sen. Jeff Merkley introduced it in the Senate. President Barack Obama supports the bill’s passage.

This took all of five minutes to fact-check. Don’t spread misinformation!

I AM SO CONFUSED