Dallas County Commissioner Maurine Dickey Compares Transsexuality With Being Ove

[Shana A]

Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Dallas County Commissioner Maurine Dickey Compares Transsexuality With Being Overweight
Posted by Monica Roberts at 12:00 PM

http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/04/dallas-county-commissioner-maurine.html

The Dallas County Commissioners Court continues to debate adding gender identity/expression  language to their recently passed sexual orientation only policy for Dallas County employees and is developing into a textbook case as to why we transpeople despise incrementalism.

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While she believes the recent decision of the Dallas County Commissioners Court to add sexual orientation to the policy was long overdue, Dickey said she thinks adding gender identity/expression to the policy could lead to adding "overweight people" or "people with diabetes."