- A majority of employees have left the leading U.S. transgender advocacy group amid a failed attempt to oust its leader, with many expressing frustration over the organization’s lack of minority hiring and outreach.
The Washington-based center’s staff is down to eight people from a high of 21 at the start of 2019, Executive Director Mara Keisling said on Friday. As for the complaints about minority hiring and retention, she said, “We have significant racial justice and racial equity work to do. Almost every organization does.”
“We have seen a damaging level of staff turnover, including a starkly disproportionate number of people of color terminated, pushed out, or otherwise separating from the organization,” read the letter signed by 10 members of the staff. The staff letter also praised Keisling for building the most formative transgender rights organization.
Keisling has been at the top of the organization since it was founded 17 years ago, becoming a leading figure in transgender rights and a occasional guest at the White House under former President Barack Obama, a strong supporter of transgender rights.
'Staff' 😐🤨🥴😁😂🤣
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It’s always amusing to watch groups on the far left and the far right splinter and disintegrate. The far left and the far right are exactly the same.
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