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In the USA, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has ruled that gender identity is covered under the portion of the law prohibiting discrimination in hiring on the basis of sex/gender. It is interesting that the ruling was made despite the failure of the ENDA law, and that the ruling does not include direct mention of the GLB. However, the members of the GLB are already covered in part by their biological sex, while this ruling protects those gender variant people. It is further interesting that ENDA failed in Congress due to the inclusion of Transgender in the alphabet soup of GLB and T.
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The comments are more interesting
than the article, and it's like looking at the comments after an article in the Daily Mail. No matter how legislation is passed to protect individuals of minority groups, many of them are always going to be discriminated against. The bottom line is, transsexuals or transgender people will never be acceptable to the great unwashed because it's beyond them to conceive such a thing. Education is the only thing that changes opinions and that takes a long time.
Angharad
Comments are *interesting*?
Let's see...
"I don't want a man in my employee bathroom" - check.
"If you've got a Y you're male - end of story" - check.
"Mutilation!" - check.
"If someone's convinced he's [insert random silly example here..." - check.
Slippery slope - check.
Employers walking on eggshells lest they be accused of discrimination - check.
Field day for lawyers - check.
Christians should be allowed to discriminate against people they don't like - check.
Yawn. Same old anti- arguments...
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
My Strategy
Very early on it was clear to me that if there was medical or genetic cause to all this I better capitalize on that. As it turned out, there was a genetic issue with me, so I have mostly insisted that I was genetically a female. As it turns out, my nutter fundamentalist family does not believe even the Doctor.
It doesn't matter to me if you think claiming a genetic reason for your gender issue is not the truth. This is a battle to the death ladies, so you claim any advantage you can find. You should never say you are transgendered even if you think that saying you are intersex is dazzling them with bull shit. It may give you a fighting chance coming out the gate and eventually, your own conduct will reveal who you are anyhow.
Just saying.
Gwen