Is it really "discrimination" to forbid a pre-operative transsexual from using the women's shower at a shelter for hurricane evacuees? Do the women-born-women who don't want to share the shower with a physical male have no rights? Judging from coverage like this, you'd suppose the answer is, no, they don't. If they're uncomfortable showering with a physical male (and too insensitive to see that their shower mate is psychologically a female), that's just too bad.
I'm not willfully insensitive to the struggles faced by the transgendered, but demands such as this are what make the public, not unreasonably, tune them out altogether.
Further: I agree, the arrest seems highly
unwarranted. Government isn't known for its sensitive handling of
these issues.
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