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Title: Two Cents - Has your thinking about transgender individuals changed?
Post by: katia on November 18, 2007, 12:29:47 AM
Two Cents - Has your thinking about transgender individuals changed?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/17/MN4ITCJR4.DTL&feed=rss.news
By Nick Cawthon
11/17/2007

'Yes. As a gay man, I'm thinking about the old saying, "United we stand, divided we fall." Recent actions in Congress have marginalized one group of people (transgender) to benefit another (gays and lesbians). Having endured discrimination myself, I find it distasteful to see the status of my sexual identity raised at the expense of another group.'