These comments are so sad. We would not need to "waste time" here if we lived in a society that was free of bigotry and hate. Since when is legislating to ensure constitutional rights (that people live their life not according to your opinions but according to theirs) something we do not want our politicians taking up urgently.We could use a little more love in this world. Support your fellow human beings. Hate will get us nowhere as a society.
~Anonymous commenter for the Baltimore Sun article Miller: Transgender bill unlikely to pass senate
Below are comments left for the Baltimore Sun article Miller: Transgender bill unlikely to pass senate (March 29, 2011) from people against the bill. It's a taste of the attitudes against transgender people's civil rights -- not just for Maryland, but from what I've seen in comment threads for other articles, it's representative what other commenters have said about transgender people's civil rights in other localities accross the U.S. as well.
- Now the liberal government wants to force employers ti hire mentally disbaled people. So now, any wacko male can put on a dress and be guaranteed a job.
- Next Maryland businesses won't be able to fire anyone for doing a bad job. Obviously that's discriminatory, because the employer discriminates a bad job from a good job. Can't have that.
This is the state government business model: fire no one in hard times, hire as much as you can in good times.
- Can anyone give an estimate as to the number of Transgendered people in this State to justify the Legislature even taking this up? What's next? A law against housing discrimination against cross eyed red haired people? You can't make it up.
- This is all a part of the radical homopromo lobby and their radical agenda to get to our children before the parents can. They know they need to get to our children, just like Hitler did.
Next will be teaching our captured kids all about their new freak teachers who don't like the way they were made. It will be FORCED that these kids must respect these genetic defective people. It is a terrible bill that must not see the light of day.
- Any employer has the absolute right to protect THEIR business. This measn they have the absolute RIGHT to tell you what you are wearing is disruptive to their work environment! If a man wants to dress like a woman..vice versa.. a woman like a slut... and the employer deems it disruptive to their workforce, they have the right to tell that violator... we have a dress code.. you are in violation .. go home and change or you will be FIRED!
There were also two trans people who commented on HB 235 who were against the bill as well in that article's comment thread:
- First, I'm glad this bill is going to die. It deserved to die after so-called "Equality" Maryland threw transfolk under the bus on public accommodations. The only assaults have come at the hands of bigots against transfolk, who only want to do their business and leave.
As to perverts like "More to come" who can do nothing but vomit up hate, bigotry and fearmongering, all I can say is that I pity you, boy. Perverted bigots like you have no facts on your side, so you spew bile like this which may incite someone to assault or kill a transperson.
Transfolk have been with humanity for eons! The aboriginal peoples of this continent revered the two-spirit members of their tribe, not to mention societies all over Asia and the Pacific islands.
I'm AM an American, bigots! Like it or not, our Constitution was written to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority, and I demand my rights to be treated equally on the job, access to a toilet on the job, at the mall, at the grocery store, etcetera.
If the perverts of the religious reicht don't like it, go to the Vatican, so you can be with other perverts like yourself.
- Transexual and intersex (hermaphrodite) persons SHOULD be protected by antidiscrimination laws. They DO have a MEDICAL condition and are in NO WAY dangerous to ANYONE.
Here are statements and resolutions made by the American Medical Association, American Psychological Association and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health supporting "FULL EQUALITY for transgender and gender-variant people". They also support "legal and social recognition of transgender individuals consistent with their gender identity and expression" and "Support the provision of adequate and MEDICALLY NECESSARY treatment for transgender and gender variant people."