Transgender job training program fast-tracked after attacks A new D.C. program that teaches job-seeking skills to transgender people and then pays some of their salaries for up to six months was fast-tracked by Mayor Vincent Gray after violence against transsexuals escalated this summer. The program is run through Project Empowerment, an $11 million-a-year program paid for with D.C. tax dollars that helpshard-to-employ city residents such as ex-convicts and ex-addicts find work. Project Empowerment is a decade old, but Director Charles Jones said only four transgender individuals had enrolled before a class was formed specifically for them. These are people "who feel like they cannot be a part of" society, Jones said. Project Empowerment runs its job skills training courses on three-week cycles and helps roughly 1,000 D.C. residents per year, according to Jones. The city's first transgender-only class enrolled in mid-September and graduated 17 people last Friday. Project Empowerment had budgeted about $147,000 for the transgender class, which includes a $8.25-per-hour wage for some graduates' jobs for up to six months. The employers pay nothing. Promises have long been made to the transgender community, said Jeffrey Richardson, director of the Mayor's Office of LGBT Affairs. But this summer, attacks against transgenders in the region began making headlines when a 22-year-old transgender woman was brutally attacked at a suburban Baltimore McDonald's in April. In July, the District saw two shootings within 11 days, prompting a meeting in August between the mayor and transgender activists. Weeks later, the plan was finalized to enroll a transgender class at Project Empowerment and work with local organizations to help recruit students. "It was quite fast," said Jones. "The mayor said 'You've got to do this ... like now.' " As Project Empowerment staff were being trained for their new class, two more attacks on transgenders made headlines in the District. Richardson said the new class wasn't directly inspired by the attacks but it was related. "They really brought to light that when you can't obtain gainful employment, sometimes folks put themselves at risk," he said. All the recent attacks in D.C. were on transgender women and occurred in early morning. This month's class produced similar results to any other Project Empowerment class -- some graduates went on to a full-time job, others got a six-month trial job paid for by the city. Others needed more education to be a good job candidate and are taking English lessons or classes to finish their GED. The goal is to show the community D.C.'s resources are available to them too, Jones said. A second transgender-only class may be in the works for February. Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/local...gram-fast-tracked-after-attacks#ixzz1alkkNfwG http://washingtonexaminer.com/local...b-training-program-fast-tracked-after-attacks Everyone, work harder- progressives have made promises that YOU are going to keep. Many groups are hungry for your tax dollars after all. _
The U.S. will allow transgender people to serve in the military... Defense Secretary: Transgenders Welcome to Serve in the U.S. Military June 30, 2016 Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced Thursday that the U.S. will allow transgender people to serve in the military. See also: Texas AG: Transgender Guidance in Fort Worth Schools Violates State Law June 29, 2016 Following the issuance of guidelines for transgender students in the Fort Worth Independent School District in April, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion on Tuesday that concludes that the guidance violates Texas state law by putting policies in place without parental input or consent or approval by the school board.
Showing what a farce the narratives about keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people really is. The biggest guns on the planet are in the Military, and there is noone more mentally unsound than a Male who thinks he was born into the wrong body, and vice versa.
Most of our allies allow transgendered and gays to serve openly in their military. Glad to see that the US has finally caught up.
Tranny gets attacked, free taxpayer dollars for them. White people get attacked in the knockout game and what? Here's the crazy part about liberals; blacks hate latinos, latinos hate blacks, and for the most part both hate the LGBT people and illegals. Best of all, liberals love Muslims and they hate everyone I just mentioned and more.
Who knew that when your junk got removed all your job skills were taken too. This is the left at it's most ironic and paternalistic AND parasitic also!
