Stop the Bloody Bigots

[erastes]

Less than a week after Largo City Manager Steve Stanton announced he was transgendered, the small Florida community's city commission fired him*. This is workplace discrimination, plain and simple. I just signed the 'Stand with Stanton' petition, and I hope you will too: http://nsrc.sfsu.edu/Petition.cfm

When the Commission fired Stanton, they ignored his excellent record as an energetic and effective leader. Stanton has received consistently positive performance reviews from the City Council and the Mayor while managing over 1,200 employees and the city's $130 million budget.

The promise of America is that if you are a good employee, you should be rewarded for it regardless of your race, creed, disability, gender or sexual orientation. Stanton's firing was an un-American display of workplace discrimination and this injustice should be reversed. Sign our 'Stand with Stanton' petition that we'll deliver to the City Commission in Largo, Florida

Comments

[raphinou.livejournal.com]

no, the promise of america ends at gender.

[beauty-seeker.livejournal.com]

from what i've seen, the current usa is nothing like that dream. maybe this is how it is in the movies. even here in canada discrimination and hurtful attitudes against TGs is bad. infuriates me. is it better in the uk?

Petition

[superqueeroes.livejournal.com]

Signed, sealed, and delivered. I hope it helps because I think it's ridiculous that as soon as he decided to transition to she they decided she couldn't compare to the great job he did, even though they were the same person. Absolutely, ridiculous!

Welcome to the stupid George W. version of the U.S.A. Dumb and dumber are the routes the government follows.

Thank God, he'll be out of there soon.
Ellen

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

I sent a letter and will be doing some journalism work to cover this story. Nothing makes people sit up and take notice like editorial work.

[tharain.livejournal.com]

Stanton's firing was an un-American display of workplace discrimination

Unfortunately, it's a completely American display in far too much of this country. I live in a happy pocket.

He lives in Florida.

[tharain.livejournal.com]

Er, (soon to be) she lives in Fla.

I'm usually pretty good about that. Goofed.