Robin Tyler is a LONG-time lesbian activist (I won't share her age, but let's just say that at the time of Stonewall, when I was busy watching Captain Kangaroo, Robin was well into her twenties). Robin was a co-founder of StopDrLaura.com, along with me, and she coordinated all of our grassroots events across the country, in 34 cities. She also has been a recent plaintfiff in a lawsuit to win marriage rights in California. The list goes on. For someone of Robin's stature to speak out on this issue is a rather big deal. Especially since, up until today, most people who have concerns about killing ENDA have been reluctant to speak out. No more.
Here is Robin's statement she emailed me this morning:
I support full transgender rights. However, when I have been invited to legal weddings of some of my transgender friends, not one of them has said "we will not get married until Diane and you and other same gender couples can get married". They did not sacrifice their legal rights on the alter of political correctness to give up the State and Federal benefits of marriage.
And yet, with regard to ENDA, the lesbian and gay community is expected to do so, leaving millions and millions of us in the majority of States, once again, unprotected.
