Oct 11, 2007Quickie Link: Boys Don't Cry -- By Paul Schindler
By vanrozenheim
(USA) - In the current debate over the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA - whether we should or should not move forward with protections for transgendered Americans as well as gays and lesbians - both sides are claiming the moral high ground, and the shrewder political calculus. Both sides are using fighting words, but I will give each the benefit of the doubt and assume they are speaking from conviction. But what has set my teeth on edge during the past few weeks has been the suggestion that being gay and being transgendered have nothing to do with each other, and that the trans community, about as politically marginal as any in US society, has somehow bullied gay and lesbian Americans into misguidedly taking up their cause.
