Sunday, February 26, 2017

Not a good week

I've been angry, depressed and on the verge of tears most of the week.  As an older trans person, life can throw you some crap, especially these days with all the hate the right wing-nuts and false Christians are spewing.  But, I'm an adult and, for the most part, I can handle it.  While I worry about all trans people, who I cry for are trans kids.  We all know being even slightly different as kids makes us a target of bullies and being transgender just amplifies the bullying.  Last week, removing protections for trans kids by a misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic attorney general and an incompetent fool of a Secretary of Education put trans kids in even more danger.  Thankfully my trans great-nephew lives in a state which, by law, lets trans kids use the bathroom of their gender but other kids aren't so lucky.  Let's just hope the SCOTUS will support Gavin Grimm and rule, once and for all, Title IX does apply to transgender people.

Edit:  A Federal Court has issued a temporary injunction in favor of three transgender students and against their school district which had said they had to use either a single person restroom or the restrooms of their birth gender.  What is most interesting is the court ruled based, rather than on Title IX, on the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment stating the students would most likely win on constitutional grounds.  This is a VERY significant ruling.

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