Showdown At Akard Station

The eyes of Texas and the national TBLG community will be focused on Dallas later today.

The Dallas Area Rapid Transit board will be meeting at 6:30 PM CDT to consider a non discrimination policy which if adopted, will wipe out protection for GL people that originally passed in 1995 and still allow discrimination against transpeople.

For those of you in the Dallas area, this meeting will take place at DART Headquarters at 1401 Pacific Ave. It can also be reached on the DART light rail line by getting off at Akard Station.

This story has been percolating since early March when thanks to a hole in the current DART non-discrimination policy, Ms. T-DART, a 20 year employee was harassed by her supervisors.

Efforts to correct this injustice were thwarted by DART board member Raymond Noah, who inserted language in the proposed policy that gutted it and if passed tonight will ALLOW discrimination against BTLG people.

It all comes down to what is sure to be a contentious DART board meeting tonight.