An Open Letter to Ronald Gold
Posted by CA_Medicine_Woman • December 13, 2009
http://standingwatch.net/2009/12/13/an-open-letter-to-ronald-gold/Dear Mr. Gold;
While it is unfortunate that you chose as your first, and it appears last, article as contributor to Bilerico an unscientific attack on the transgender population, I do thank you for revealing your widely held views, regardless of how I may disagree with them or find them offensive. You have exposed the giant white elephant in the middle of the room, the one most would prefer not to see, but is none the less ever present. I'm not quite sure which I find more offensive, your attacks on transgender persons as a whole, or Bilerico's attempt to deny such bigotry exists by quickly removing your article, and in doing so quelling the inevitable debate it sparked.
I understand you are one of the original founders of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and that your actions in particular were instrumental in removing sexuality from the list of mental illnesses and disorders, thereby removing much of the legal and social stigma attached to such a classification. I have never agreed, however, with your long held position that sexuality is a choice, preferring to believe the evidence I witness, and the science, that says otherwise, rather than an unproven opinion largely held by religious extremists who hold that the universe orbits Earth, that the total destruction of our planet is a necessary step in our spiritual evolution, etc.
