Securing the passage of a transgender-inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act is the necessary first step toward getting federal support for other LGBT-equality measures, according to John Berry, director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and the most senior out member of the Obama administration. "If we can get ENDA enacted and signed into law, it is only a matter of time before all the rest happens," Berry said. "It is the keystone that holds up the whole bunch, and so we need to focus our energies and attention there."
