Mare Tranquillity
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Whatever your position on Obama, I think you can appreciate the fact that he has struck down an unfair labor practice that is widespread in this country. Though he only did so for Federal hiring, it sets a good example for the rest of the country. Obama has inserted "gender identity" into the wording of the law so that transgendered people cannot be denied a job on the basis of their birth defect. This a move that hurts no one and helps a minority gain equality.
For too many years transgendered people have been legally denied equality in this country for a birth defect over which they have no control. One baby in every 500 suffers from this condition to some extent, but the American Medical Association has been successfully treating us with the Standards of Care for more than 40 years. It's high time that the rest of the culture catches up with science on this issue.
Transgendered people suffer from a discontinuity between perceived gender and their own internal sense of their gender. It has nothing to do with sexual orientation (which is who you find sexually attractive). Transpeople have all the same sexual orientation choices as everyone else and we tend to be gay/straight/bi in about the same percentages as the general population.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/us/06gender.html
For too many years transgendered people have been legally denied equality in this country for a birth defect over which they have no control. One baby in every 500 suffers from this condition to some extent, but the American Medical Association has been successfully treating us with the Standards of Care for more than 40 years. It's high time that the rest of the culture catches up with science on this issue.
Transgendered people suffer from a discontinuity between perceived gender and their own internal sense of their gender. It has nothing to do with sexual orientation (which is who you find sexually attractive). Transpeople have all the same sexual orientation choices as everyone else and we tend to be gay/straight/bi in about the same percentages as the general population.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/us/06gender.html