The LGBT movement’s next frontier: Transgender rights

The La Crosse Tribune ^ | May 17, 2015 | Sarah Parvini and Tre’vell Anderson, Los Angeles Times

[2ndDivisionVet]

Transgender issues are the next frontier of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights movement. A string of high-profile cases, such as a Kansas judge’s decision to allow Army Pfc. Bradley Manning to change her name to Chelsea and Olympian Bruce Jenner’s televised coming out as a transgender woman, coupled with a series of gay rights victories, have opened discussions of transgender rights.

Here are seven things to know about the trans community.

The basics

Gender identity and sexual orientation are not the same; a transgender person, of which there are an estimated 700,000 nationwide, can be straight, gay, lesbian or bisexual.

Unemployment and employment discrimination

Transgender workers report unemployment at twice the rate of the general population, according to a survey by the National LGBTQ Task Force and the National Center for Transgender Equality.

High levels of unemployment are due, in part, to a lack of protections for transgender men and women in the workplace, the survey said. Just 16 states and the District of Columbia prohibit discrimination based on gender identity. Six others also protect against gender identity discrimination, but only for public employees....

[2ndDivisionVet]

Good grief.

[9thLife]

I’m waiting for someone to come up with a trans-racial minority group. That ought to be rich.

[MeshugeMikey]

Steve Martin...if I remember correctly from the movie The Jerk...was born a poor young black chile!! does that qualify ??

[conservativejoy]

“Good grief”.

My sentiments exactly. Hard to believe we have 700,000 mentally ill mutants, but I guess I’ll take their word for it.

[Regulator]

High levels of unemployment are due, in part, to a lack of protections for transgender men and women in the workplace

No, actually it's because they're lazy and mentally ill...usually leads to unemployment.

[Maine Mariner]

Oh this is only the beginning. After trans-gender will come rights for pedophiles and the lowering of the age of consent to 12 or 14.

[9thLife]

Yes, because he "identified" as black.

Michael Jackson (RIP), the opposite, apparently.

[MeshugeMikey]

let us not give short schrift to the Transhumans....

Transhumanism


This article is about the futurist ideology and movement. For the critique of humanism, see posthumanism. For the pattern of seasonal migration, see transhumance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism

[Scrambler Bob]

a trans-racial minority group. —

Didn’t Michael Jackson partake in a little Melanin Opression?

(And he could have qualified for some of the other QWERTY, too.)

[MeshugeMikey]

Michael Jackson is the PERFECT example..of Trans Racialism

Born black....with the DNA TO PROVE IT....he was surgically and other wise altered to appear....white...



does that mean theres also Trans Racessness?

[MeshugeMikey]

what could we expect??

hed been microaggressed by his DNA since birth

[Scrambler Bob]

I love this:

DNA MicroAggression

[Amendment10]

Regarding the article, who cares about PC distinctions between LGBT or transgender issues? The states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect either LGBT “rights” or transgender “rights.” So the states are free to make laws which discriminate on the basis of such criteria imo.

[MeshugeMikey]

Revrunt Al Sharpton who has been feeling a tad microaggressed his own self lately...will be calling for an END to WHITE DNA Privilege... later this week

[Dallas59]

I want to talk to your kids...If you don't let me I'll have you arrested!

[umgud]

Is a fellow who wants to be female attracted to males or females?

[Girlene]

From the article: " According to the 2011 survey, 41 percent people who are transgender or gender nonconforming said they had attempted suicide some time in their lives, compared with 1.6 percent of the general population."

These are some messed up people.

[Huskrrrr]

My college now gives keys for the faculty restrooms to transgender students.

[PROCON]

Good grief is right.

What's next, trans-species rights?

[Travis McGee]