Gender Identity Disorder Legalizing Deception: Why “Gender Identity” Should not

[Shana A]

Sunday, March 21, 2010
Gender Identity Disorder

Legalizing Deception:
Why "Gender Identity" Should not be added to Anti-discrimination Legislation

by Dale O'Leary

http://pfox-exgays.blogspot.com/2010/03/gender-identity-disorder.html

Certain national and international groups are pushing for the addition of "gender identity" and "gender expression" to anti-discrimination laws. According to activists, gender identity  is defined as: "An individual's self –perception or inner sense of being a man, a male, a woman, a female, both, neither, butch, femme, two-spirit, bigender, or another configuration of gender. Gender identity often matches the gender typically associated with the person's anatomy but sometimes does not" and gender expression refers to: "Any combination of how someone outwardly presents external characteristics behaviors that are socially defined as masculine or feminine, including dress, mannerisms speech patterns and social interactions."[1]

For example, a bill introduced in the Maryland legislature reads as follows: "An owner or operator of a place of public accommodation ...may not refuse, withhold from, or deny to any person any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges of the place of public accommodation because of the person's ....gender identity." This would mean that males dressed as females could use women's restrooms and locker rooms.

[cynthialee]

Scary. The writer sounds sane and driven and mostly educated. (by the wrong information)
He is definatly good at geting visceral reaction.
I do not like the trend in transphobia. They are hiding behind psudo science and the ideas of the Blanchard, Baily, Lawrence's of the world.
Clueless people tend to believe the person who is reflecting thier opinions instead of an expert who is showing fact. The expert is quikly dismissed when the 'phobe sites someone who has a doctorate who disagrees with the expert.
I sense a growing backlash against the trans comunity is brewing.

[Suzy]

This is a truly scary article.

One lie leads to another. A clearly a male person presents himself in public as a woman. He has had surgery and hormone treatments to perfect his impersonation and he demands that we pretend this makes him a woman. He wants us to use female pronouns when speaking of him and to allow him to use the ladies' restroom. He also wants to change his birth certificate and drivers' license. While some persons who present as the other sex are obviously not the sex they pretend to be, others are able to deceive their sexual partners without informing them of their true sexual identity.

            Persons who present themselves in public as the other sex say they need such protections because they are afraid of violence. This fear is real. When someone is deceived -- particularly in such a personal matter has the sex of an intimate partner or potential spouse – anger is an understandable reaction.  Violent acts can never be condoned, but if such legislation is passed those who have been deceived will be denied any legal recourse and the deceivers portrayed as victims.

So.....violence cannot be condoned, but we want to have legal recourse just in case we want to get violent?  This is sick.

Kristi