The statistics reported about members of the Trans community are staggering, and form a solid foundation for work at the local, state and federal levels to offer full non-discrimination protections for all, including women and men who identify as Trans.
I think there is clearly some within the LGBT community who express transphobia at anywhere from a very mild to very blatant and offensive level.
This is from LifeSiteNews, a far right crazy website, which is constantly working to deny lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons equality. I thought this was a very telling illustration of the way bigots justify their hate. This bill, proposed by the NDP’s ‘LGBT’ critic Bill Siksay, is merely the latest attempt by the homosexualist lobby to force their ideology on our families. It will lead to even greater restrictions on our freedoms as we’ve[Read More…]
If a police officer comes to take a report, and you feel that she or he directly ignores evidence or facts, then that itself should also be reported. If you ever feel that a police officer doesn’t treat you acceptably, at least in zone 5, the commander wants to know about it, because he expects all of his officers to treat everyone with dignity, respect and the full attention of the law.
They need to generate fear in the reader, and create a false sense of being a victim. The truth is that a YMCA or similar facility is not under any requirement to do anything based upon a driver’s license. But the next few sentences lay out the AFA’s real motivation with what they have written.
too often the “T” in LGBT is forgotten, and this piece of work is a big step forward in terms of treating the whole of the LGBT community as valued and important.
One of my blog readers sent this to me, and wanted to post it. The link at the bottom is to the health conference website for more information. Dear Friends and Colleagues, The attached is a letter requesting that employers who are Transgender friendly attend the Trans Health Conference Career Day on June 3, 2010 at the Convention Center, to talk with, interview and take applications from Transgender persons for potential employment positions. Â I am[Read More…]
The linked blog post by Tom Lang below is a wonderful read, and talks about something I’ve written about from a general perspective before. Same-sex marriage equality is critically important to some parts of the LGBT community, but it, in and of itself does not produce equality. Even after 6 years of marriage equality there, the whole of the LGBT community remains lacking some very basic protections because a part of that whole has no[Read More…]
The method for dealing with lies and misinformation has to be to counter them by calling out the lies and offering real information instead. L+G+B+T matters when we all raise our voices together against any of the weapons of lies and misinformation directed at any of us individually.
A loyal reader sent to his to me a few days ago, and I should have put it up on the blog sooner: U. of Pennsylvania Adds Transgender Surgery to Student Insurance Plan The University of Pennsylvania will begin offering insurance coverage in the fall for sex-change surgeries, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian, joining a group of about 30 other colleges nationwide. Students’ insurance at the university, provided by Aetna, will cover up to $50,000[Read More…]