The House is debating a critical gay civil rights bill that would prohibit discrimination of any homosexual in the workplace today. But there's something very wrong with the bill. Democrats have removed transgendered people from the protection of the bill because they are afraid the bill will fail if transgendered people are included. How can a gay civil rights bill NOT include the "T" from LGBT and still operate under the ruse of promoting and protecting gay rights? The answer: it can't.
Get this straight and clear up any confusion, because believe me, there's a lot of it, before making any judgements. Keep in mind that sex is the body and gender is the mind. A transvestite is a person of one sex who chooses to dress as the other sex while still upholding heterosexual tendencies, a transgendered person is someone who is of one sex while feels more like the opposite gender. The term "transgendered" also includes "transsexual," a person who changes from one sex to the other because they felt more like the other gender. A lot of people don't know the difference, or forget the difference, and end up being offensive.
This is exactly the kind of mistake that leads to infringements of rights. If we forget who they are, inside and out, how can we properly uphold their rights? In order to ensure fairness and equality, one of the supposedly "main principles" in America, people must know and understand the difference. We are failing to set appropriate standards of acceptance and equality if we neglect parts of our community! End the ignorance and realize that transgendered people aren't people who are pretending to be the other gender, but someone who is really stuck in the wrong sex.
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emily, you are making good points, and i agree fully. however i am slightly confused. why are they leaving them out of the bill? because technically if ( for example) a man wanted to become a woman and did it, his sexual preference would change wouldn't it? unless he aspired to be a lesbian( no offense to anyone , im not critisizing lesbians, this is an example).
I am TOTALLY for gay and transgender rights, but, technically, they are two different things, right? There's a difference between liking the same gender as you and feeling like the other gender. So, why are they always grouped together? You say "How can a gay civil rights bill NOT include the "T" from LGBT and still operate under the ruse of promoting and protecting gay rights?" but not including transgenered people in a gay civil rights bill would still be promoting and protecting gay rights. Again, I am totally for equal rights for everyone, but maybe, should the T be placed in a different acronym?
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