Vt. Senate passes bill banning gender identity discrimination (Howard Dean home state alert!)

Rutland Herald ^

[Princip. Conservative]

Sad, really. This kind of pandering is so sickening to the soul. Sad that Governor Douglas, a Republican, is planning to sign it. However, Douglas has stood for what's right on a few issues and does have some moral standing in this otherwise wack-job state.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

The "Peoples Republic of San Francisco" has now officially been equaled by the "Peoples Republic of Vermont"

[marvlus]

This from a state that has some of the most lenient child abuse laws in the country, if not the world.

[cripplecreek]

My dog seems to have a few gender identity confusions so I hope someone comes along and passes a law banning owners of pets with gender identity issues discrimination.

[hsalaw]

discrimination against people based on their gender identity or expression

What the hell is "gender identity or expression"?

[Princip. Conservative]

"The "Peoples Republic of San Francisco" has now officially been equaled by the "Peoples Republic of Vermont""

Agreed. Vermont has become a real weird-ville.

[Princip. Conservative]

"What the hell is "gender identity or expression"?"

It means that we decent citizens mustn't get mad at a woman dressed and acting like a man or a man dressed and acting like a woman. I mean, that would be so mean of us????

Total fruitcake stuff.

[goldstategop]

Civil rights protections for cross-dressers and sexual perverts. That is indeed social progress. We've gone down, down, down a loooooooooooong waaaaay, baby!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[<1/1,000,000th%]

So in Vermont, men can use the women's bathrooms?

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Creating another specially privileged victim group that can whine and complain over nothing and get innocent people fired.

[headstamp]

"Man" "Woman" "Shim"

[NewHampshireDuo]

Wasn't this proposed for NYC and they found so many unintended consequences that it got nixed?

[almcbean]

It means that whether you are male or female is no longer a physical determination., rather, you get to choose your own sex

[Princip. Conservative]

"So in Vermont, men can use the women's bathrooms?"

Yeah and I guess lockerooms, too! Sounds like some real abusable stuff. But that's the way of the fruity liberals, my friend.

[w1andsodidwe]

Does this mean that when someone robs a bank, we will no longer be told of the gender of the person that did? Just a person with brown eyes and 6 foot tall. Go find it.

[padre35]

Vermont is now officially a part of Marin County, these folks are nuts.

What happens when a employers hires "Bob" on Monday and "bobina" comes to work on Tuesday?

This bill says that to fire them would be discrimination.

[hsalaw]

rather, you get to choose your own sex Gosh. I didn't realize it was a choice. I've spent over 50 years believing I was born female and, may I say, quite happy with it. The only time I've ever thought about anything else was at a AAA ballgame many years ago, when the centerfielder threw a dead on shot from deep center field to the catcher at home plate. The entire crowd was on its feet, cheering, and I wondered how it would feel to be able to make a throw like that.

[almcbean]

You learn something new every day. I'll give you a practical application. You're at a ballgame and the line for the ladies' room is out the door. A quick gender identity switch , and you're in and out of the men's room before you know it. You laugh to yourself as you stroll past those unenlightened women who think they have to remain female just because you were born that way.

[Kenton]

"But... but officer, I'm a lesbian locked in a man's body!"

[hsalaw]

You are so right, and I've actually done that! A few years ago, while driving back from Maine, I stopped at a gas station to fill up and use the ladies' room, and the line for the ladies room (single seat) was at least a dozen women with small children, while the mens' room right beside it was empty (also a single seat) with, of course, no line. So I nipped into the mens' room, and when I got out there were about six women lined up in front of it. I didn't realize it was a gender identity thing, and I never for a moment thought I wasn't a woman; I regarded it as a practical approach to the prevailing circumstances. Heh!