Posted on 05/05/2011 4:00:36 PM PDT by NYer
WASHINGTON, DC, May 5, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - This past Friday, the Obama Administration became the first administration ever to host a meeting at the White House focusing exclusively on the discussion of federal policy related to “transgender” issues.
According to a report in the Washington Blade, the meeting, which was hosted by the Office of Public Engagement (OPE), was attended by transgender activists and White House officials from the White House Domestic Policy Council, the Office of Cabinet Affairs, the Office of Public Engagement, and the counsel’s office, among others. The president himself was not in attendance, however.
“While transgender issues have been covered in previous OPE meetings, and transgender leaders have been included in other OPE meetings, this would be the first time OPE has held a meeting solely focused on transgender issues,” Shin Inouye, a White House spokesperson, said.
Beyond general information about who would be in attendance, the White House reportedly would not reveal any further information.
“This meeting, like most OPE meetings, is closed to press and off the record,” said Inouye.
Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, revealed to the Blade that her organization had been invited to the meeting. She would not give any information about what specific policy issues she intended to raise, but commented that employment policy, access to health care, military policy and immigration detention standards were all issues of concern for her organization.
“We’re not prioritizing them in that way, and I’m not going to prioritize them that way just so you can have a good story,” Keisling said.
Michael Silverman, executive director for the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, told the news service that employment was a “top priority” in the transgender community.
Homosexual activists have been lobbying the president to issue an Executive Order barring workplace discrimination on the basis of “sexual orientation.” Homosexual groups such as Equality Matters and the Human Rights Campaign have come out in support of such an Executive Order.
Keisling’s Center for Transgender Equality claims on its website that a “disproportionate amount” of such discrimination is targeted against “transgender” individuals.
“As the American economy worsens, the discrimination faced by transgender people is becoming even more acute,” says the organization. “Often forced into already unstable jobs and careers, and often facing compounding bias because of race or age, the economic well-being of transgender people is being challenged today like never before. The federal government has a responsibility to protect people from discrimination.”
Obama has demonstrated his sympathy for transgender issues in the past, declaring June to be “National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.” Last January, he also became the first President to select a transgender appointee when he named Amanda Simpson to the position of Senior Technical Advisor to the Department of Commerce.
That's ok! We'll bookmark the article and resurrect it next year as we draw closer to the elections. The web is more powerful than the media.
No good with pics and the “ I`d hit it “ comments !
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Obama is the first transgender president. Just ask Larry Sinclair.
Closed to press and off the record. Not America’s white house anymore.
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I still do not understand how sexual perversion (homosexuality) and mental\emotional illness (transgender and the rest of their GLBT related classifications) attained the status of minority groups.
How on earth does what abnormal sexual acts you commit qualify you for special rights?
Finally! The country will surely get back on track now.
Obama shoring up his political base of fags, molesters, queers, democrats and other degenerates.
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Exactly! Now, if we can just raise gas prices another five or ten dollars per gallon, add more government subsidized trains/public transportation, and outlaw all fats and sugar in food, we'll be moving in the right direction.
I guess this is some of that “important” stuff he needs to deal with instead of the COLB “silliness”.
Obama probably figured the transgender community needed some inspiration after that beat-down one of them took at the McDonald’s in Baltimore.
Did the president find any he liked? Who is in the limo with him?
Another middle finger from The Won to America.
Would that be Glen or Glenda?
I still do not understand how sexual perversion (homosexuality) and mental\emotional illness (transgender and the rest of their GLBT related classifications) attained the status of minority groups.
I would say the biggest reason is pity. One doesn’t have to love one to act sympathetic to them, while, in the meantime, one can tell a group of gay rights activists have stopped by your Church based on how they act. In fact, they’re blessed for the fact that most of the religious crowd has actually delivered very little retaliation at them.
“Obama has demonstrated his sympathy for transgender issues in the past, declaring June to be “National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.”
Does this mean that June 14th, Flag Day, is officially renamed Fag Day?
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