link (http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/04/19/news/doc462624bd1ccf3348725446.txt)
State lawmakers mocked sex changes while debating a bill that would have made it easier to get a new birth certificate after switching genders in another country.
The legislation came up shortly after a debate about neutering deer to control their population. Republican Rep. Chapin Rose joked that the state might start issuing sex-change documents to deer.
Republican Rep. Bill Black said he objects to recognizing non-surgical sex changes. "Maybe you went somewhere and a voodoo doctor said you were now a man, where you had been a woman," Black said.
So can we transsexuals now start making fun of Reps. Rose and Black? I almost feel like doing it but I won't sink to that kind of insensitively ignorant level. >:(
I feel bad for the citizens of Illinois, especially those who are transgendered, that they are so poorly represented in their state capitol.
frowns and anger
helen