When Pakistan passes a transgender right’s bill and the United States president is doing his best to role back what few federal protections were passed under president Obama, there’s something drastically wrong.
It is literally, not figuratively now the case that a transgender person would have more protected rights in Pakistan than in much of the United States if their bill is signed by the Pakistani president. Now let that sink in. Is that even a remotely acceptable notion? That in a country built around democracy, with the credo “All men are created equal” that we treat gay and transgender people as second class citizens.
If there is a principal that should be deserving of federal protection it is that people should be afforded equals rights not only on the basis of race, religion and sex, but sexual orientation and gender identity.
How have we allowed the national discourse become one of divisiveness and anger and hate. Why do we allow those seats at the table. People may have a right to be racist, sexist, antisemitic, homophobic and transphobic, but there is no rule saying we need to give them air time or listen to their hate filled diatribes.
People keep shouting freedom of speech. Freedom of speech applies to the government not interfering with what people communicate, it in no way forces any company or individual to listen or promote something they don’t want to.
My Gifted Life 