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What's unusual about these cases is they've made headlines: Most job discrimination against transgender Americans goes unnoticed. It's wrong, though. And Congress will soon have the opportunity to outlaw most of it by passing the Employment Nondiscrimination Act, written to protect those of us who're gay but wisely expanded to include transgender workers.

It's bizarre that Americans can still be fired for wanting the freedom to have their outward appearance match their internal sense of their gender. Our country celebrates other efforts to tinker with nature -- the advances that allow otherwise infertile couples to become parents, restore the virility of 75-year-old men and offer women custom-sized breasts.

But, short of Congress' stepping in, ignorance will keep destroying careers.