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enlightenment

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2. "Working against their biology"
Mon Feb 29, 2016, 12:30 PM
Feb 2016

I read the entire piece, to be fair, but that comment sums up the issue the author has - ignorance and bigotry rolled up in a conservative mindset and tied with a rainbow ribbon (based on the description of the author at the bottom of the editorial).

This isn't a new argument, however. My son (who is trans*) told me years ago about running afoul of a leading figure in the San Francisco gay community - a political activist who flatly rejected the idea that my son could "ever be male".

When my son moved to the UK and started working with an LGBTQ charity there, I asked him if it was associated with Stonewall - the leading advocacy group in the nation. He said no; because Stonewall believed that supporting "T" undermined the political advancement of L, G, and B. They have somewhat changed their tune of late; some progress, at least.

Is there a difference in the drives and needs of LGB and T? Sure. Should it be used as a political football? Hell, no. Unfortunately, there is in any group a strong element of "we worked hard, don't ride our coattails" - whether it is a deserved response or no - and that drives a lot of this desire to toss the trans* community under the bus.

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