HRC Apologizes to Trans Community, Pledges Push for Broad LGBT Bill
In a gracious and surprising move, the president of the nation’s largest LGBT organization offered an apology to the transgender community at the same time he said the group would take a lead in advocating fully comprehensive federal LGBT civil-rights legislation. “I want to cut right to the chase here today,” said Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin in Atlanta Friday, September 5, addressing several hundred people at the annual Southern Comfort conference, a major gathering for transgender people. “There’s an elephant in this room, and, well, it’s me,” he said. “So I am here today, at Southern Comfort, to […]