House OKs Bill to Ban Workplace Discrimination for Sexual Orientation but Ignores Transgender Workers

But the bill does not include protections for transgender workers, an omission that makes the bill “deeply flawed,” according to Pride At Work, the AFL-CIO constituency group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) workers.

n a statement released last night, the group says:

The passage this evening by the House of Representatives of a deeply flawed version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) is deeply disappointing. Both the removal of gender identity protections for the bill and the incorporation of the language of the infamous Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) into legislation that was supposed to free the LGBT community from discrimination are unacceptable to Pride at Work, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender constituency group of the AFL-CIO.