I can’t say whether the law was intended to cover gay or transgender folks, but as a philosophical matter there ought not be bias against these folks unless it would affect their ability to perform the job. Merit should be the sole basis for treatment of individuals. That said, employers ought to be legally able to discriminate in any way they like, and be subjected to the forces of the market if their discrimination is not supported by the public.
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The freedom of association is as important as any other right. It should not be infringed.
“...but as a philosophical matter there ought not be bias against these folks unless it would affect their ability to perform the job.”
Having men pretending to be women will affect the way everyone else performs their job. Imagine being a normal guy assigned to a project with a tranny. Nope. But let’s make everyone else suffer so trannys won’t have low self-esteem.
As an employer, I do not want people who show signs of serious mental illness either working in my shop or representing me to customers and the public.
I never know when, or if, one of these people is going to go from trying to fit in to being a complete in your face idiot. So, I choose not to have them.
My employers consider me a good employee. This does not mean that they would not fire me if they decided I was mentally unstable, or if my behavior made other employees sufficiently uncomfortable as to be damaging to the work environment.
Seriously? Homosexuality would get you involuntarily confined in a state mental institution in the 1950s. It wasn't until 1973 that it was removed from the list of mental disorders, and even then it was only removed because the @ueers got together and threatened the members of the APA.
There is no way on God's green earth that anyone in 1964 intended to protect F@ggots from discrimination. They were trying to lock them up for crying out loud!
I can’t say whether the law was intended to cover gay or transgender folks, but as a philosophical matter there ought not be bias against these folks unless it would affect their ability to perform the job.
I don’t believe in transgender. We should accept people the way they are and not encourage them to surgically “switch to the opposite” because it isn’t even successful 50% of the time (contentment).
But no one should be discriminated against for hiring because of sexual orientation or how closely they appear to match their biological gender. If the job depends on one gender, that is different. I can discriminate on hiring help for mom by gender because she doesn’t want a male nurse dressing or bathing her, for an example.
Transgender women and men are at high risk for getting HIV. According to current estimates, about 1 in 7 (14%) transgender women have HIV, and the percentage is much higher among black/African American (44%) and Hispanic/Latina (26%) transgender women.* An estimated 3% of transgender men have HIV. - cdc@service.govdelivery.com