SaidItVille
The following is the lede from front page piece in today's The Washington Post by Casey Parks, Emily Guskin and Scott Clement:
Transgender Americans experience stigma and systemic inequality in many aspects of their lives, including education, work and health-care access, a wide-ranging Washington Post-KFF poll finds.
Many have been harassed or verbally abused. They’ve been kicked out of their homes, denied health care and accosted in bathrooms. A quarter have been physically attacked, and about 1 in 5 have been fired or lost out on a promotion because of their gender identity. They are more than twice as likely as the population at large to have experienced serious mental health struggles such as depression.
Yet most trans adults say transitioning has made them more satisfied with their lives.
“Living doesn’t hurt anymore,” said TC Caldwell, a 37-year-old Black nonbinary person from Montgomery, Ala. “It feels good to just breathe and be myself.”...
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As PZ Myers noted:
Indeed.
"About time a national paper was brave enough to say it."
Indeed.
Especially that part in red, above.
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Non-musical ear worm in the subheader?...This.
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4 comments:
yes it was about time a newspaper said it. It is also a good thing when bloggers provide the informatin on their blogs to their readers.
Life is difficult enough without bigots making people's lives more difficult.
Never did understand why others were so concerned with other peoples' lives and how they lived them. "has made them more satisfied with their lives", that is incredibly important. Why any body would try to prevent some one else from being more satisfied with their lives is beyond me. If some one is nonbinary or wants to change how they identify, its no one else's business.
The current hate we are seeing in the U.S.A. and the laws which are being passed to make life for LBGTQI more difficult is just so strange. Like those who are making life difficult for others need to get a life and let others live theirs as they see fit.
Very, very well said e.a.f.
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The attacks on LGBTQ, drag queens, trans youth is all part of a well-funded and coordinated decades long strategy by this heinous christian right movement. It's been repeated over and over again starting with the ghoulish Falwell, the odious Florida orange juice whatever her name was, the Bush led constitutional amendments to protect sacred marriage, and on and on to the mean spirited attacks on drag and trans youth. Just wait for the Opus Dei Supreme Court over-turning the right to marry, which will likely happen before the 24 presidential election. It's #2 following the abortion win. Nothing can stop it. Tim W.
Tim--
That name on the tip of your fingertips...Anita Bryant.
Interestingly, Ms. Bryant paid a price for her role in rolling back an anti-discrimination ordinance in Miami in the year that punk broke. Heckfire, even the Florida Citrus Commission dropped her as their 'brand ambassador'.
Nowadays, of course, she would be feted forever and would be leading all attendees in the citing of the loyalty oath before every DeSantis rally.
Or some such thing.
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