Matt Foreman, Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force issued the following statement on the news that ENDA will be voted on with inclusion of 'gender identity' only when the community is able to secure the vote commitments from members of Congress:
We completely disagree with this proposed strategy – it simply makes no sense. If the goal is moving an ENDA that protects all of us, passing a flawed, gay-only bill utterly undermines that objective. The notion that the House of Representatives will be willing to revisit a different ENDA before the end of the calendar year – when it has been unwilling or unable to take up a single pro-gay matter over the last 34 years -is more than implausible. We will do everything possible to convince members to end this misguided course of action.
Matt Foreman, Executive Director of the