Honestly I think Candis popping up on 'Good Morning America' and 'The View' is having and will have a huge impact on the transgender front. Of course there is still much work to be done in terms of mass understanding of the topic, even among gays and lesbians. But it takes honestly I think it takes someone like Candis to get middle America to get it. Funny ... some older t-women I know sometimes wax nostalgic about the 70s ... they say it was easier for them to "pass" back then, because people were less sophisticated then about such things. Yet even they acknowledge the progress that's been made and how uninhibited today's youth is and less constrained by traditional notions of gender and identity.
Re: ENDA ... I just can't get away from the idea that if you've improved the civil rights of even ONE person, that's a good thing. And for those who've been left out of that victory, it just means the activists have to keep fighting, that's all. In that sense nothing has really changed ... the fight is still here and we have to keep going.