ancient trans meme

Roberts used her pulpit to dish on makeup trends and lambast major LGBTQ+ organizations in the same breath. That included the Human Rights Campaign, with Roberts chronicling one of the famous LGBTQ+ advocacy group’s most infamous missteps in real time.

In February 1997, as Roberts wrote in her column, HRC lobbyists working to expand gay rights with the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) accompanied Wilchins and other trans activists to Washington, D.C., where they were told by several members of Congress that trans-inclusive language in ENDA would torpedo the bill. But just two months later, Roberts sent out a furious update. “Now, it looks like Wilchins and Priesing may have been suckered by HRC and taken only to certain offices where the message would be delivered the way HRC wanted,” Roberts wrote. She had reportedly heard from another activist group that visited Congress separately that many supporters of the bill were in fact open to the idea of including trans people.

“We need to trust our instincts and not be so gullible,” Roberts fumed. “HRC is no friend to the transgender community as they have demonstrated time and again.” ENDA would eventually pass the House ten years later, with no protections for trans people, but never cleared a Senate vote. Today, some of its legacy is contained in the trans-inclusive Equality Act, which cleared the House in 2021 but died in a Senate committee.

i can see that the HRC has yet to change in 30 years...