Friday This & That: Open Thread
by: Autumn Sandeen
Fri Oct 08, 2010 at 15:00:00 PM EDT
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/17575/friday-this-that-open-threadI know I say this over and over again: marriage equality is very much an issue for transgender people, transsexual people, and people who identify as both transgender and transsexual. The reasons why marriage equality is an issue for trans people are often very unalike from the reasons why marriage equality is an issue for lesbian, gay, and bisexual people. But, the commonality of experience -- where trans, lesbian, gay, and bisexual people don't have the freedom to marry whomever they love -- is why marriage equality is an issue for all of these minority populations.
"W" in the Bay Windows above isn't trying to enter a same sex marriage, but nonetheless the marriage she wants to enter into is being treated as a same-sex marriage by Hong Kong's government. The situation, to me, is detestable.
