Sources on the Hill confirmed to The Transadvocate that Barney Frank’s office will announce the hiring of Diego Sanchez today. Sanchez will replace outgoing senior policy adviser, Joe Racalto. Sanchez is currently the Director…
Thanks to Box Turtle Bulletin and Gay News Blog I was introduced to this lovely piece of transphobia: The commercial, produced by Citizens For Good Public Policy, shows a small white blond girl entering…
Last month the Advocate ran an article titled “Gay Is The New Black?: The Last Great Civil Rights Struggle“. Today Joe Solmonese and other gay rights advocates have expressed outrage at the choice of…
Back on Feburary 25, 2009 Kathy Padilla wrote a post over at Pam’s House Blend titled “Hate Crimes & ENDA: Bad Bills Come and Bad Bills Go“. When it came out I really thought…
According the Washington Blade, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) approved a policy statement that “the group will not support the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, if it excludes language protecting persons from discrimination.” The…
Today at 1pm today (6-24-09) Barney Frank is set to officially introduce the HR 2981, The Employment Non-Discrimination Act. This week, Congressman Barney Frank will introduce the Employee Non-Discrimination Act. The legislation would extend…
On twitter yesterday, Kyle Pratt of Ruminations Blog posted this: ‘Bathroom bill’ foes rally in Mass.: http://digg.com/d1tt6Z?t More problems with “transgender” guys and restrooms. Of which I responded with: Can you name one person…
Last Thursday Jason Bellini of the Daily Beast reported that the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) had made a deal with the Obama Administration to delay repealing the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy in…
Am I the only one who is a bit puzzled/miffed/baffled by Barney Frank’s insinuation in this exchange: There is another difference from 2007. Frank now has a policy adviser who is a female-to-male transsexual.…
I spend a lot of time here at The Transadvocate posting various news articles from around the web through a plugin that pulls tweets from the Transadvocate Twitter page. Recently Stephanie Stevens from Abnormal…