TransAdvocate

As I recounted on my latest podcast, Mara Keisling was recently on the Becky Juro Show. I replayed a clip of Juro asking Mara if she would comment on NCTE Board Chair Meredith Bacon’s statement that:

As the chair of the NCTE Board of Directors, I can assure all who read this blog that NCTE will not work with HRC in the foreseeable future, until the current leadership is completely purged, and until we are convinced that, unlike its predecessors, any new HRC leadership is totally committed to working for transgender rights,

Mara said that she couldn’t comment on something she’d not heard about. At the time I found that very suspicious, since I had been cc’d a copy of this email:

Mara’s email must travel really slow. I retract this statement due to be alterted to the fact that the email on the image below, is NOT the correct email address for Mara Keisling.

According to the Washington Blade, Mara is still not commenting.

The Blade is calling for a retraction:

Bacon’s attack on HRC and other trans advocates’ denouncing of gay Rep. Barney Frank over the ENDA flap will ultimately do more damage to the cause of one day passing an inclusive bill. All of this name-calling is shortsighted and oh-so-predictable.

It’s time for Keisling and other members of the National Center for Transgender Equality board to publicly repudiate Bacon’s offensive and irresponsible remarks.