Valerie Keefe
Writer, activist, candidate, unpaid political consultant, service-sector prole, and general nuisance

Incrementalism and the Folly of Marriage Before Nondiscrimination Laws
Posted: 01/30/2012 3:23 pm

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/valerie-keefe/transgender-rights_b_1237811.html

And every time people allow a situation where rights are bifurcated on the basis of the relationship between assigned gender and identified gender on one hand and assigned gender and sexual attraction on the other, we have problems.

When a state that hasn't gotten around to passing fully inclusive nondiscrimination protections decides to focus on extending the definition of marriage, that's all well and good for those who already have nondiscrimination protections, but consider this:

If you're not covered under nondiscrimination law, how are you going to compel someone to grant you a marriage license in the first place?