The interesting thing about this case is that it puts a name and a face to an argument that the transgender community has been making to HRC and Barney for a decade and Lambda Legal backed up with their analysis last year on Barney's non-inclusive ENDA..

The non-transinclusive ENDA had it become law wouldn't have covered Ms Farmer.

Reality check time. There are effeminate looking gay and straight men along with masculine looking straight and lesbian women out there in the real world in addition to us transpeeps. It's why the 'gender or perceived gender' language not only must be in ENDA, it broadens the number of people that it covers and makes it a better bill.

It also makes ENDA an inclusive bill that the entire GLBT community can feel good about working to get passed. It will also garner more votes in Congress than the transgender free one Barney and HRC browbeat into passage last fall and has as much chance of passing the Senate this year as George W. Bush earning the Nobel Peace Prize.

Khadijah's case also highlights one of the major intersections between the transgender, GLB rights movements and our straight allies. Gender expression discrimination can and does affect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, gender variant or straight people. It's an issue that we in the GLBT community can use as a coalition builder with our straight allies..

Of course Ms. Farmer is pleased with the settlement. She said, "I'm very happy that the restaurant has taken appropriate steps to ensure that all patrons, regardless of how masculine or feminine they appear, are treated with dignity and respect. People come in all shapes and sizes, and they shouldn't be discriminated against because they don't match someone's expectations of how masculine or feminine they should be."

Khadijah, could you come with us to Washington, DC, and deliver that message to some peeps on Rhode Island Ave who have an equal sign logo and a certain transphobic Massachusetts congressman?