Transgender Law Making Strides

FoxNews.com ^ | August 06, 2002 | Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

[gubamyster]

WASHINGTON

[goldstategop]

Trannies as the next civil rights cause??? Ewwwwwwwwwww. Spare me please...

[Dakmar]

Next week: Kleptomaniacs demand civil right to keep everything they steal.

[Dakmar]

pong

[RAT Patrol]

"We gave certain rights and protections to people so they could not be discriminated against because they were born with certain characteristics and couldn’t change them. Now we are facing a situation where they can change their characteristics … and then we confer upon them special protections. It’s sowing confusion and it’s very problematic," Chavez said. Linda Chavez is the best!

Wagner said, "We have been able to transform our cause," Looks like they should be called "the transformers." They just transform everything they see.

[luckodeirish]

There are 2 of these transgender people currently suing (at my place of employement) the medical plan to get the operation covered by the insurance. They are creating havoc.

[lsee]

They should be suing for mental health counseling, since their behavior and beliefs are dysfunctional.

[Khepera]

We could make mummies of them all and push for mummies rights.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Concerning these issues, perhaps instead of creating new laws, we should simply penalize those who do not enforce the current law in a fair and impartial way.

[zx2dragon]

My thoughts exactly. They keep writing more and more laws that will rarely ever be enforced.

When I actually had to worry about hiring people (many moons ago), I didn't care if they were white, black, asian, gay, straight, etc. I looked at the resume, did the interview and then decided if the person could do the work. Thus, I did not have to concern myself with any of these multiple laws at all.

[luckodeirish]

I agree, we have very rich mental health benefits but these two are determined to hold the company hostage to get what they want. In addition to the surgery, they want a seperate restroom for them only, so that they don't have to face co-workers in the restroom.

[Billthedrill]

I concur as well. Being refused employment in a federal job because one has had one's naughty bits altered is one thing; forcing one's fellow citizens to pay for one's elective surgery is quite another.

[Jim Noble]

>>their behavior and beliefs are dysfunctional<<

Actually, it's more than dysfunctional.

Since they have a false fixed belief about their bodies, which results in mutilation, it is almost certainly a psychosis.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Since they have a false fixed belief about their bodies, which results in mutilation, it is almost certainly a psychosis.

Becareful when you say things like that because a person could make an arguement like that dealing with ANY type of plastic surgery, from a nose job, to fat removal, to a tummy tuck.

[Bahbah]

Good grief. Wish I was the judge in that case.

[JMJ333]

I wouldn't think that these folks would be any psycologically healthier by subtracting then adding genitalia. And they do have to live a lie because any normal heterosexual won't accept that kind of deviancy--and deviate from the norm is an understatement.

People don't really think too deeply about what that kind of operation involves. Its very complicated. For a man to turn into a woman the doctor would have to excavate a vagina. Can you imaging that? Not many people want to. But here you have people pushing to make us look upon this behavior as normal.

The next in line after the transgenered is the beastials and pedophiles. Wait and see.

[3catsanadog]

I don't know about anybody else, but I'm getting weary of tolerating, accepting and celebrating all these special interest groups.

[Dakmar]

I've always wondered how a doctor could justify this sort of mutilation, but I think I know the answer, and it's green and fits nicely in a wallet.

[JMJ333]

Yeah, but I wouldn't trust a doctor who would do that kind of surgey. He'd have to be lacking in all basic forms of morality to even consider it. And even so, I am scared to imagine how a constructed vagina would look. Do you honestly think a heterosexual man couldn't tell anything was amiss? Not likely.

I think it is even unhealthier on the psyche than remaining homosexual. What these people need is medical doctors who actually care about them as human beings and take the time to find figure out an aggressive therapy for their disorder. It must be hell to live like that.

[ArGee]

Transgender rights law ? that is protecting the rights of people whose identity does not match the genitalia they were born with ? has exploded in the field and in the political arena, becoming a new wave of civil rights in this country, according to experts.

Ya know, quick as I might be to simply label this one more form of bull-paddies and go off on a conservative rant, one thought does give me pause.

If I decided to claim I was really a woman trapped in a man's body and sue the bejesus out of somebody how could anyone ever prove me wrong? Or right? Or anything except insane (which would violate these new transgendered civil rights laws).

The thought of all that money just sitting there to be taken makes my feet itch. Kind of like the ability to sue somebody from whom I was never rejected for employment because I never applied because a friend of a friend told me they didn't hire "my kind."

Is this a great country or WHAT?

Shalom.