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US Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that the Justice Department will now consider discrimination against transgender individuals to be considered sex discrimination. The full PDF of the announcement (only 2 pages) can be found here.
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Only 16 years behind...
Thank god I live in the UK! We got this in 1998.
To be fair, any and all progress that gives all of us equal rights should be applauded However the key term here is 'equal'. Personally I'm uncomfortable with any demand for positive discrimination or, equally, that demands tolerance as a right. Maybe I'm opening up a can of worms here that will cause something of a debate, but I would suggest that the more aggressive elements of the LGB--t lobbying community cause a lot more harm than good.
Persephone
Non sum qualis eram
Beware the term 'equality'
When people throw around the term, 'equality', I think back to the novel, Animal Farm, where some animals were more 'equal' than others.
A word means exactly what I want it to mean...
Please forgive my misquoting 'Alice through the Looking Glass' however…
Paul,
The road we follow in transitioning is painful and scary at many levels. If you are saying that we should ask for an equal chance at life then I thoroughly agree and applaud your comment. I only worry when someone demands more on the basis of their 'special' status, or because of the discrimination those who have gone before have suffered. Particularly when such demands are strident and aggressive.
One of my favourite quotes comes from Dale Carnegie's book 'How to win friends and influence people' … "Never demand as a right what you can ask as a favour."
Persephone
Non sum qualis eram
A few thoughts you need to realize.
As a child, in the name of 'equality', I was the victim of bigotry, over the course of years.
I have lived long enough to see groups demand special treatment, in the name of equality, receive this special treatment, and turn around and use their new power to wrong the members of other groups, for past slights, whether real, or imaginary. It did not matter to those with this power.
Never forget that power corrupts. And absolute power, corrupts absolutely.
You want to go for a term that is worth defending. Try, "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
A violent agreement
Paul
I wholeheartedly concur
Persephone
Non sum qualis eram
Favors
One of my favourite quotes comes from Dale Carnegie's book 'How to win friends and influence people' … "Never demand as a right what you can ask as a favour."
It's a lot easier to take away a "favor" than it is a right. Never mind what I am or where I fit on some arbitrary gender scale, I expect the same rights as any other American. No more, no less.
Dale always a suck-up, as a white male his rights were pretty much assured. Not so with the rest of us.
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
There is no such thing as white male privelege.
There is no such thing as white male privilege. It does not exist. It has a term that is made up by those that demand special treatment.
Though, by affirmative action laws, an employer has to consider everyone else for a job, before they are allowed to consider white men for that job.
An example of how some people are more 'equal' than others.