[LurkedLongEnough]

"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist."

[SamAdams76]

"We've had a number of documented cases of discrimination against transgendered people in Cook County and Chicago."

So how exactly is this "amendment" going to prevent this? Liberals are so silly with their laws and declarations and such. Like some dude is going to walk into a Chicago bar in a dress now and the local roughnecks are going to say "Gee, we can't give this fairy a hard time because there's some new amendment prohibiting us from doing so."

[pabianice]

Ahhh... but what of trans-species rights? I smell the next law suit (and with my canine nose, it's easy)...

[IronJack]

what can often be described as a gender variant community

And a sow in a tutu can be described as a ballerina. But it doesn't mean she can pirouette.

[Alex Murphy]

That's all fine and dandy, but how is Zogby going to refer to them in exit polls?

[txzman]

The Democrats are firmly in control of the state of Illinois.

Now having firmed up their control, they begin the process of Califoniazation.

And this is what liberals and blacks are voting for? It seems to me that gay and transgendered 'people' get much more legislative support and activity than blacks ever did.

All minorities get is the same Democratic fear-mongering. The GOP needs to make minorities understand that it is the Democrats who use their bodies and their votes, while spitting at them behind their backs.

[Dan from Michigan]

Transgendereds? I call them "its".

[Argh]

Pardon my ignorance, but how can I discriminate in housing and jobs against the transgendered when they're not likely to tell me or give me visual proofs (yuck!) of what they are?

[stylin19a]

The move Tuesday added people acting or identifying themselves as members of the opposite sex...

Are these transvestites ? transexuals ? both ?

Let's say a guy get's a sex change and is now considered a woman.. does she now have to identify herself a man to be covered under this ?

Is there anything that is considered deviate anymore ?