tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20389448.post2309050523742262366..comments2024-03-20T06:44:28.606-05:00Comments on TransGriot: Wait Your Turn?Monica Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09702533200851174728noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20389448.post-14621519503353063042007-10-01T12:34:00.000-05:002007-10-01T12:34:00.000-05:00'The injustice in justice is kicking the weak nd p...'The injustice in justice is kicking the weak nd protecting the strong.<BR/><BR/>Ray Charles <I>Brother Ray</I> 1979<BR/><BR/>I stand in solidarity with you too my intersex friends. As Dr. King said, injustuce anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."Monica Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09702533200851174728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20389448.post-11953185055034055242007-10-01T08:20:00.000-05:002007-10-01T08:20:00.000-05:00Ms. Roberts: I just want you to know that I am a p...Ms. Roberts: I just want you to know that I am a person with intersex conditions and I am in solidarity with you! Anyone who has battled with bias based on gender identity is aligned with everyone else who has struggled for such acceptance. I applaud your articulate stand. Intersex and trans must stand in solidarity too in our need never to be left out of protections from harm. Thank you!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11123159486525336328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20389448.post-26012268742505732292007-09-29T13:48:00.000-05:002007-09-29T13:48:00.000-05:00Ms. Deux,Even if the House passed Frank's Folly, t...Ms. Deux,<BR/>Even if the House passed Frank's Folly, the Senate has yet to weigh in and they may want to have it include transgender peeps.<BR/><BR/>I'd not only hit Barney, but also Speaker Pelosi, Majority Whip James Clyburn (who is a CBC member BTW) and Dem members of the House.<BR/><BR/>We really can't start with the Democratic senators until Teddy releases his bill on the Senate side. Teddy Kennedy is the lead senator on ENDA, but he ain't listening to nobody but himself. <BR/><BR/>We have to wait and see what form his ENDA bill takes. If we raise enough of a stink maybe he'll introduce the version he has tucked away that has 'gender identity' written into it.Monica Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09702533200851174728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20389448.post-81988086822545753222007-09-29T12:57:00.000-05:002007-09-29T12:57:00.000-05:00Monica,So if the President does veto the current b...Monica,<BR/><BR/>So if the President does veto the current bill won't that give time to lobby for re-inclusion of Transgender protection in the bill?<BR/><BR/>Should everyone contact Barny Frank? Let me know because I'll send him a letter.<BR/><BR/><BR/>(by the way I finally corrected the spelling of my posting name Mes Deaux Cents, the "Deaux" was actually a typo it's supposed to be "Deux"...)...nothing else changes though, the link stays the same.Mes Deux Centshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10697034868111011343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20389448.post-78903439081043534282007-09-29T11:06:00.000-05:002007-09-29T11:06:00.000-05:00Thanks Ladies.I was pissed over the day's events u...Thanks Ladies.<BR/>I was pissed over the day's events until I sat down in front of the computer and started writing.<BR/><BR/>I just started and didn't stop until I finished the first draft of it an hour later.Monica Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09702533200851174728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20389448.post-75293376350409888732007-09-29T10:51:00.000-05:002007-09-29T10:51:00.000-05:00AMEN!AMEN!Jackiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14802989264619041023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20389448.post-10812259459697214622007-09-29T08:38:00.000-05:002007-09-29T08:38:00.000-05:00As someone who transitioned over two decades ago, ...As someone who transitioned over two decades ago, I don't have much to fear with respect to being called out on gender identity. I have much more to fear due to my identity as a lesbian in a 17 year relationship. Yet I am unwilling to use my privilege as an apparently cisgender person to grab for protection as a Lesbian while leaving behind my less privileged brothers and sisters.<BR/><BR/> It is morally wrong for me to abandon my brothers and sisters. In the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus tells of two respectable leaders who chose not to help a man who was robbed, beaten, stripped naked, and left for dead. They knew they were at risk of becoming ritually unclean, requiring them to turn back to Jerusalem - a costly delay.<BR/><BR/> Yet a Samaritan - who didn't even get along with the Jews - was so moved by the man's situation that he stopped to help and even paid to have the man stay at an inn and recover.<BR/><BR/> We have the opportunity to stop and help - even if it causes us delay - or to walk on with the hope that the man will not suffer too much waiting for us to come back<BR/><BR/> If it is more difficult to pass ENDA with transgender language included, what does that tell you? It tells me that more people are willing to accept discrimination against transgender people and, therefore, transgender people need this law even more than gay and Lesbian people do.<BR/><BR/> Waiting until people don't want to discriminate before passing an anti-discrimination law makes no sense.<BR/><BR/> Waiting until people don't want to discriminate against a class of people before passing an anti-discrimination law to protect that class makes no sense.<BR/><BR/> I'm siding with the Samaritans on this. Walk on by at your own risk. <BR/><BR/> - <A HREF="http://cindik.com/spirituality/trans-cendental/" REL="nofollow">Trans-cendental</A>Trans Dykes on Bikes for Christhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03277447902746612136noreply@blogger.com