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Title: Opinion: The year of fear
Post by: LostInTime on January 05, 2007, 09:00:06 AM
Post by: LostInTime on January 05, 2007, 09:00:06 AM
Link (http://www.washblade.com/2007/1-5/view/columns/smith.cfm)
IN 2006, TRANSGENDER people found it hard to get jobs because they were transgender. Some, like Lily McBeth gained their job — as a substitute teacher at a small school in New Jersey — just to see yet another so-called "family" group jump up to try and block her from ever setting foot in a classroom. Even with the school board siding in her favor, her status still remains in doubt.
In the world of sports, Michelle Dumaresq, a competitive cyclist from Canada won a race, only to have one of the other cyclists show up on the stand wearing a shirt attacking Dumaresq's status. Even more recently, Santhi Soundarajan, a 25-year-old runner from India, failed a gender test administered by the Olympic Council of Asia. Soundarajan has more Y chromosomes than was allowed and was stripped of her silver medal. In both cases, the assumption is that they had some performance enhancers at work.
IN 2006, TRANSGENDER people found it hard to get jobs because they were transgender. Some, like Lily McBeth gained their job — as a substitute teacher at a small school in New Jersey — just to see yet another so-called "family" group jump up to try and block her from ever setting foot in a classroom. Even with the school board siding in her favor, her status still remains in doubt.
In the world of sports, Michelle Dumaresq, a competitive cyclist from Canada won a race, only to have one of the other cyclists show up on the stand wearing a shirt attacking Dumaresq's status. Even more recently, Santhi Soundarajan, a 25-year-old runner from India, failed a gender test administered by the Olympic Council of Asia. Soundarajan has more Y chromosomes than was allowed and was stripped of her silver medal. In both cases, the assumption is that they had some performance enhancers at work.