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Some Quick Thoughts About The Congressional Hearing...

Started by Shana A, June 26, 2008, 03:54:47 PM

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June 26, 2008, 03:54:47 PM
Some Quick Thoughts About The Congressional Hearing...
Filed by: Rebecca Juro
June 26, 2008 3:30 PM



It ended about ten minutes ago as I write this, and I have to say I was, for the most part, impressed. At some points, even proud.

Opening statements made by Tammy Baldwin and Barney Frank were both powerful and moving. Despite my many previous bashings of Frank in the past, I must say that for the most part he acquitted him admirably here.

While I probably wouldn't have made a point of mentioning how great it was that the subcomittee was even bothering to hold a hearing on transgender employment rights in the first place as Frank did, I also think he took exactly the right tack in making the point that transpeople should be entitled to the same rights as everyone else, that if those present could support someone like himself being treated as an equal then they should also be willing to do the same in the case of a transgender person.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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