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Title: Have We Evolved in our View of Transgender People?
Post by: Natasha on September 14, 2012, 05:02:18 AM
Have We Evolved in our View of Transgender People?

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/09/13/discrimination-against-transgender-people-remains-prevalent-so-must-our-work-to-e (http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/09/13/discrimination-against-transgender-people-remains-prevalent-so-must-our-work-to-e)
9/13/12
by Debbie McMillan

Like most people, the sum of who I am is much more than my individual traits. However, there is one fact about me that puts me way outside the mainstream. It's that I'm a tran-sgender woman.

Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that Massachusetts judge ordered prison officials to provide sex-reassignment surgery for a murder convict.

The piece started by talking about a transgender woman who used to meet in dark parking lots with other transgender people for support. "How things have changed since then for transgender men and women in America, who have made great strides in recent years toward reaching their ultimate goal: to be treated like ordinary people," the piece noted.