No Civil Rights for Transsexuals

United States Federal Appeals Court has ruled that transsexuals have no civil rights.

Sam's written ruling said that a 1989 U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning
discrimination against people who do not meet the stereotype of their gender
- an effeminate man or a butch woman - does not apply to the transgendered.

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/09/092107bus.htm

African-Americans fought a long and hard for their civil rights. Litigation only took it so far, it took enormous grassroots action to get things going.

At what point will we finally just agree that ALL citizens get civil rights? Must we really spell it all out in the supreme court? Yes you Ma'am who were born male and transitioned to female, and you Sir born female, and you too who are intersexed having features both male and female... all of you get to have the same rights your parents and grandparents take for granted.

Meanwhile good ole' HRC (that's Human Rights Campaign) keeps transhealth on the back burner for fear of pissing off the insurance companies. If it WERE on the front burner major corporations wouldn't be able to get near the list of "cool" companies without providing full transhealth coverage... which, in my book means a whole lot more than transsexuals don't get denied coverage outright. Health care or lack thereof is another subject all to itself. The topic of the day is civil rights.

Does ANYONE ELSE out there remember this song? It's the same old song and same old sad sad song and sorrier dance my friends. All minorities get it at one point or another. The old don't ask for too much, just be grateful for what little you've got. That dish of slop has been handed around for way too long already. It doesn't taste any better cold.

Outside the Gender Box

Some say gender is a simple binary equation
XY chromosomes and a penis equals male
XX chromosomes and vagina equals female

Some say it's a continuum
female at one end male at the other
the space between all shades of pink to purple to blue?

My tendency is to resist the usual gender norms
I think of it more as a splatter
it's not a neat and tidy equation

it's nature it's messy
elegant splatter closeup
when properly in focus quite beautiful

God help you if you have two X's and a phallus
or a vagina and a Y
or any other of the myriad variations found in nature

God help you if your brain has been telling you all your life
that you are a boy if you weren't born with a penis
yes God may help you - your culture will not

Society as it is now has no room for anything different
if it is outside the neat little box of binary
then it's judged "unnatural"

'God doesn't make mistakes'
I know that I am definitely NOT a mistake
I have a place in this world

I am not a birth defect
I have been given the will and the strength to walk this path
regardless of society's disdain

I am not alone
I am not the first
and I certainly am not the last

so you may as well make room
in your brain and your world
for those who don't fit neatly into the box

because we're here
we always have been
we're not going away