The Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, has been kicking around the government in various iterations since 1994, and since 2009 has included language protecting transgender people from workplace discrimination. ENDA’s never been signed into law, and given the current state of Congress, it won’t be anytime soon. But! As a stop-gap measure, the executive branch can at least ensure that government contractors don’t discriminate against their employees, and grant same-sex families the same benefits afforded to straight ones.

Now Metro Weekly has gotten its hands on a “lengthy memo,” penned by The Williams Institute and The Center for American Progress, urging the president to do just that, and outlining how such an order might be implemented. The memo has apparently made it to the White House as well as the desk of Rep. Barney Frank — the legislature’s greatest ENDA champion. On January 13th, several of the memo’s authors and supporters met privately with Frank’s senior policy advisor, Diego Sanchez.

The memo’s contents are here.