Halted anti-discrimination bill must be pushed forward
Highlighting gender differences is completely baseless

By Monica Wei, Online Staff Writer
04/26/2008

http://silverchips.mbhs.edu/inside.php?sid=8323

They live their lives just like anyone else. They work, go to school and pay their bills. Yet many of them live in misery - either shunned and hated for who they are or forced to keep their lives secret for fear of being hated - because they are transvestites and transgenders.

The Gender Identity Bill, 23-07, passed by the Montgomery County Council last November, seemed to promise to ease the troubles of those with gender identity disorder. The bill adds gender identity, or an individual's self-conception as male or female, to the county's many categories of non-discrimination laws, preventing discrimination against transgenders or cross dressers in housing, employment and public accommodations. This legislation is neither new nor shocking, and the passage of the Gender Identity Bill added Montgomery County to the list of over 100 jurisdictions that include gender identity in their anti-discrimination laws.

Quote from: Zythyra on April 27, 2008, 01:30:42 PM
The Gender Identity Bill... seemed to promise to ease the troubles of those with gender identity disorder. The bill adds gender identity, or an individual's self-conception as male or female, to the county's many categories of non-discrimination laws, preventing discrimination against transgenders or cross dressers...

Are crossdressers and TGs diagnosed/considered as having GID? I thought that by definition they still identify as their birth sex?

~Kate~