Just Plain Sense
Equality, Diversity and plain good sense for the 21st CenturyPearls among swineChristine Burns | Friday, February 10, 2012
http://blog.plain-sense.co.uk/2012/02/pearls-among-swine.htmlThis has been an exciting week for trans people concerned with the way the media represents them.
Watching some of the events from afar, I can imagine that some of those involved in the big news items will have experienced the same kind of mix of adrenaline and hope as my colleagues and I felt when our campaigning milestones came along, years ago.
In our day, it was watershed moments where we achieved legal rights advances ... employment protection, the right to NHS treatment, legal recognition of our identities. (I would link to the historical record of those moments but, as I explained recently, the internet no longer has much of a live record of those events.)
