Shannon wrote:

Mike the Usurper wrote:

Stefanie wrote:

Dead on! ...and legislators wonder why their collective approval rating is lower than the President's. Here's a related San Francisco Chronicle article: Many in Bay Area call anti-bias measure an act of betrayal. Betrayal is an accurate way to describe it, but I can't say that I'm surprised.

Sorry, not seeing this one. Discrimination based on gender is already barred. With this adding discrimination based on orientation as protected, what then is not covered? As far as I can tell, this sounds like an issue where the TS/TG community is screaming bloody murder because they didn't get their own special section of the bill. Now, if you'd like to explain how having gender protected and orientation protected fails to protect TG/TS, I'm all ears, but at the moment I'm hearing "look at me! I'm an attention whore!"

(that is more sarcastic than normal, I'm never up this early and don't like it much)

You're also not supposed to discriminate based on creed, but I doubt a satanist would have a very strong case unless the bill said satanist. The bill says "gender" not changing gender. Thats enough of a difference.

Soon they're going to start discriminating against fat people. Your weight is largely determined by genetics, so this borders on eugenics . We need comprehensive equal rights to preserve and alloow for cultural enrichment in our country. The law should have been more inclusive. Not oonly for transgender but for fat people, smokers, people who like to paint themselves blue for that matter. Your job worthiness should be determined by your relevant background and everyone with equal qualifications deserves a fair shot no matter what their habits are. Anything else is not fair.

And to this I will say, "No. A thousand times no!" This sort of argument is exactly how we got where we are with the issue. By doing a breakdown like this, the jackasses responded with, "Well what I want to do isn't listed, but all these other things are, so what I want must be okay." This is how we've gotten stuck with the walking clusterfuck in the White House "well it doesn't say we can't waterboard, so it must be ok."

No. If you are barred from discriminating based on gender, it doesn't matter a good god damn if you're male, female, she-male, eunuch, trans whatever, or have a transplanted horse dick. It's ALL barred, and adding more shit on just gives people ideas. Bad ones. The law is clear, concise, and if you're taking your cues from Rush Lameass, you need your head examined. And having looked at this even more closely now, the specifics of the bill, this is attention whoredom.

Boo hoo, it doesn't have my name in it. Let me make this perfectly clear. Sticking it in there green lights some other group getting screwed because it mentioned this group, but not that group. I have news for you, the admonition that discrimination on the basis of gender is not allowed covers ALL of it. Period. If the TG/TS thing were in there, then it would be okay to go after some other group.

The law is right, it covers everyone. The TS/TG people screaming about it need to stop being drama queens, look at the damn thing, then have a nice hot morning cup of shut the fuck up.

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