Filed by: Rebecca Juro
October 27, 2007 2:30 AM
The Bilerco Project (http://www.bilerico.com/2007/10/enda_update_the_fork_in_the_road.php)
QuoteThe upshot: Transgender people don't need more Americans to rally behind us or to do more education in order to simply be considered worthy of being protected under the laws of this country by most of its citizens. We're past that now. The numbers in our own community are unquestionably on our side, every poll taken indicates that the American public supports protecting transpeople from workplace discrimination far more strongly than they support same-sex marriage or any other gay-only issue. Those old saws just aren't credible anymore, and now, everyone knows it.
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The whole article is good, with a great analysis of how the politics were played to shake money from conservative Gays and Lesbians by chumping the 'trannies'.
Karen