a clever way to discriminate legally?
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transhttp://www.indegayforum.org/news/show/31725.html
Interesting article about how with a little bit of clever wording anti-discrimination laws can be swept under the carpet..
One sentence in particular caught my eye.. "The petition notes that many universities “require faculty, students, and staff to follow certain ‘ethical’ standards which prohibit engaging in homosexual acts,” and immediately brought the following quote from a film to mind
"If you don't do anything homosexual, and you don't tell anybody you are a homosexual... then WHAT exactly makes you a homosexual?"
And just where would a pre-op transwoman stand in the eyes of these organisations?.. (anybody who knows my friends reunited page will know I was college staff for years.. that's why I found this interesting) I'm not gay, my identified gender means I have.. to appear straight (which I am).. sleep with only men.. or biologically looking at me.. only with women.. or both.. or neither... errrr...
I guess they would use blanket discrimination against me.. just because they seem to be allowed to by the current laws.
Interesting article about how with a little bit of clever wording anti-discrimination laws can be swept under the carpet..
One sentence in particular caught my eye.. "The petition notes that many universities “require faculty, students, and staff to follow certain ‘ethical’ standards which prohibit engaging in homosexual acts,” and immediately brought the following quote from a film to mind
"If you don't do anything homosexual, and you don't tell anybody you are a homosexual... then WHAT exactly makes you a homosexual?"
And just where would a pre-op transwoman stand in the eyes of these organisations?.. (anybody who knows my friends reunited page will know I was college staff for years.. that's why I found this interesting) I'm not gay, my identified gender means I have.. to appear straight (which I am).. sleep with only men.. or biologically looking at me.. only with women.. or both.. or neither... errrr...
I guess they would use blanket discrimination against me.. just because they seem to be allowed to by the current laws.