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.
It’s not pity.
It’s nothing but stinking cowardice.
I will admit that cowardice is the better word for someone who buys whatever they please with their money while the rest of us have to endure the junk as part of the public: school, healthcare, and who knows what else.
I doubt the administration will have any difficulty releasing photos of this....
At this point the entire ship of evil clowns in DC are all alike. THere are very few principles Rs but their number is so small they can’t do much. And they certainly can’t do what is needed, against the Dems, Rinos, lobbyists, entrenched bureaucrats in every agency, department, office, etc etc.
IMO the only way things will turn around in the right direction is some kind of divine intervention and/or natural law kicking in. This Titanic just is not going to switch directions without help.
so we have a bunch of confused weirdo’s going to a house which has housed many great men and then this donkey invites these mentally confused people
Look for you trolls reading this and I know you troll because you have no life and nothing better to do.
If you are born with a penis then you are a boy, if you are born with a vagina then you are a girl.
Hell even kindergarten cop has a kid saying this so cut the crap of how you think you were born and get a grip of your life and accept who you are and that does not mean having parts of your body chopped off sicko’s
exactly
keep this nearer the election and show the public just how sick these idiots are.
a man say gets off sexually in an unnatrual way and he thinks he should be given the same rights as a normal couple
A man or a woman are born a certain way and this person thinks getting things cut off or adding makes them what they want .talk about mentally confused or sick people and now they demand equal rights
even sicker is the muppets which have no problem with them and then defend these people instead of trying to get them mental help
They go in one way and out another way.
They go into The White House one way and out another way.
lol! That could be the reason he chose to use that name.
Eboo is jealous
Yeah, why just hand that photo op to the Republican candidates?
...it is no wonder the Government cannot operate "for the people" they are all there to advance their own personal agendas and "we the people" have become the minority. Next we'll see them lower the age of consent....they are going after our children of course.
exactly , you’re so right and that is their goal
I read the commie manifesto of 1963 and people would have to read it to believe it , sickening at how far they have come and the have only comes this far due to the cowards on the right who shut up about their agenda
The jerk just had to use my birth month to celebrate perversion,didn’t he?
Still...all this reflects the mindset and crippled thoughts of our country’s fall into a cesspool. we have these people because people chose them...Americans choose those who do the chooosing. Sad state our country is in morally...might as well say it’s done in that respect. Anything goes now...it’s just a matter ofchnagin the laws...and of course they are certainly doing just that. Chipping away until the whole thing will fall under it’s own weight.
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