Remove Cathy Brennan as liaison To ABA's Commission on LGBT

The Issue

Attorney Catherine (Cathy) M. Brennan Partner at Hudson Cook LLP has used her position as a lawyer to repeatedly harass, intimidate, bully and embarrass a portion of the community that she has been entrusted by the American Bar Association to help, transgender and transsexual peoples.

Recently Cathy Brennan cyberbullied a transgender woman who had a docket date to change her gender marker by publishing that information and asking that others contact the judge in oppisition to her petition.

http://pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com/2012/05/24/the-bittersweet-change-of-gender-court-ruling-it-came-with-cyberbulling/

Cathy Brennan recently maliciously outed a 17 year old. Transgender Youth To His High School in retaliation for the youths ignorance regarding "rape jokes' which he later appoligized profusly for after being educated about how those 'jokes' are unnaceptable.
http://planetransgender.blogspot.com/2012/06/cathey-brennan-laywer-maliciously-outs.html

Cathy Brennan and co author Elizabeth Hungerford tendered a paper to the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, in response to a query regarding the current international status of women stating that:


"the proliferation of legislation designed to protect "gender identity" and "gender expression" undermines legal protections for females vis-à-vis sex segregated spaces, such as female-only clubs, public restrooms, public showers, and other spaces designated as "female only."  http://www.bilerico.com/2011/08/less_than_woman_less_than_human.php 

The event picture which was sent to a transgender woman via twitter is the straw that broke the camel's back.
http://planetransgender.blogspot.com/2012/07/catherine-brennans-sorry-for-you-dick.html

It is unnaceptable that Cathy Brennan is a liaison to Gonzaga Univ School of Law for the ABA's Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity  This allows her unfettered access to further stigmitize trans people from within the legal syastem.

The  very fact she holds that position validates her anti transgender views and further places in harms way the people she was entrusted to work for.

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Kelli BuseyPetition StarterI am a politically active radical transgender feminist. I love Jesus Christ. I author planetransgender blog and write a advocacy column for the UK glossy online mag. "Frock". I am the founder of the facebook group "TransAction ConVergence" and founder of the worldwide advocacy group "Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies".
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The Issue

Attorney Catherine (Cathy) M. Brennan Partner at Hudson Cook LLP has used her position as a lawyer to repeatedly harass, intimidate, bully and embarrass a portion of the community that she has been entrusted by the American Bar Association to help, transgender and transsexual peoples.

Recently Cathy Brennan cyberbullied a transgender woman who had a docket date to change her gender marker by publishing that information and asking that others contact the judge in oppisition to her petition.

http://pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com/2012/05/24/the-bittersweet-change-of-gender-court-ruling-it-came-with-cyberbulling/

Cathy Brennan recently maliciously outed a 17 year old. Transgender Youth To His High School in retaliation for the youths ignorance regarding "rape jokes' which he later appoligized profusly for after being educated about how those 'jokes' are unnaceptable.
http://planetransgender.blogspot.com/2012/06/cathey-brennan-laywer-maliciously-outs.html

Cathy Brennan and co author Elizabeth Hungerford tendered a paper to the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, in response to a query regarding the current international status of women stating that:


"the proliferation of legislation designed to protect "gender identity" and "gender expression" undermines legal protections for females vis-à-vis sex segregated spaces, such as female-only clubs, public restrooms, public showers, and other spaces designated as "female only."  http://www.bilerico.com/2011/08/less_than_woman_less_than_human.php 

The event picture which was sent to a transgender woman via twitter is the straw that broke the camel's back.
http://planetransgender.blogspot.com/2012/07/catherine-brennans-sorry-for-you-dick.html

It is unnaceptable that Cathy Brennan is a liaison to Gonzaga Univ School of Law for the ABA's Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity  This allows her unfettered access to further stigmitize trans people from within the legal syastem.

The  very fact she holds that position validates her anti transgender views and further places in harms way the people she was entrusted to work for.

avatar of the starter
Kelli BuseyPetition StarterI am a politically active radical transgender feminist. I love Jesus Christ. I author planetransgender blog and write a advocacy column for the UK glossy online mag. "Frock". I am the founder of the facebook group "TransAction ConVergence" and founder of the worldwide advocacy group "Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies".

The Decision Makers

Linda Rusch, Gonzaga Univ School of Law
Linda Rusch, Gonzaga Univ School of Law
Chair, ABA Business Law Section, Gonzaga Univ School of Law
Responded
The ABA Business Law Section does not support or condone discrimination nor derogatory comments of any type. We actively work to increase diversity in the legal profession and to promote an inclusive atmosphere for all of our members and for those who attend our meetings. Catherine Brennan is not currently an ABA Business Law Section Liaison to the ABA Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. She served one year in that position in 2008-09. Catherine Brennan has no connection to Gonzaga Law School or Gonzaga University and is not a liason from the ABA to Gonzaga Law School or Gonzaga University.
American Bar Association
American Bar Association
Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Robin L. Rone
Robin L. Rone
Director ABA Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

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