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The LGBT movement’s next frontier: Transgender rights
The La Crosse Tribune ^
| May 17, 2015
| Sarah Parvini and Tre’vell Anderson, Los Angeles Times
Posted on 05/17/2015 6:06:34 PM PDT by 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 judges decision to allow Army Pfc. Bradley Manning to change her name to Chelsea and Olympian Bruce Jenners 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....
(Excerpt) Read more at lacrossetribune.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; transgenders
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Good grief.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I’m waiting for someone to come up with a trans-racial minority group. That ought to be rich.
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posted on
05/17/2015 6:09:26 PM PDT
by
9thLife
("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Francis)
To: 9thLife
Steve Martin...if I remember correctly from the movie The Jerk...was born a poor young black chile!! does that qualify ??
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posted on
05/17/2015 6:10:51 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
“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.
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posted on
05/17/2015 6:11:05 PM PDT
by
conservativejoy
(We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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.
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posted on
05/17/2015 6:11:14 PM PDT
by
Regulator
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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.
To: MeshugeMikey
Yes, because he "identified" as black.
Michael Jackson (RIP), the opposite, apparently.
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posted on
05/17/2015 6:11:59 PM PDT
by
9thLife
("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Francis)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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
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posted on
05/17/2015 6:13:35 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: 9thLife
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.)
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posted on
05/17/2015 6:14:18 PM PDT
by
Scrambler Bob
(an icon of resistance within the oppressed patriots, who represent resilience in the face of SSV)
To: 9thLife
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?
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posted on
05/17/2015 6:15:43 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: Scrambler Bob
what could we expect??
hed been microaggressed by his DNA since birth
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posted on
05/17/2015 6:16:42 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: MeshugeMikey
I love this:
DNA MicroAggression
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posted on
05/17/2015 6:25:43 PM PDT
by
Scrambler Bob
(an icon of resistance within the oppressed patriots, who represent resilience in the face of SSV)
To: 2ndDivisionVet; All
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.
To: Scrambler Bob
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
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posted on
05/17/2015 6:27:59 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I want to talk to your kids...If you don't let me I'll have you arrested!
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posted on
05/17/2015 6:28:19 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
(Only a fool stumbles on things behind him.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Is a fellow who wants to be female attracted to males or females?
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posted on
05/17/2015 6:32:01 PM PDT
by
umgud
(I never capitalize; muslim, islam or allah)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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.
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posted on
05/17/2015 6:32:50 PM PDT
by
Girlene
To: 2ndDivisionVet
My college now gives keys for the faculty restrooms to transgender students.
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posted on
05/17/2015 6:37:36 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Good grief is right.
What's next, trans-species rights?
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posted on
05/17/2015 6:38:44 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(CRUZing into 2016 with Ted.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
05/17/2015 6:54:02 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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