Deena noted
" . . . If I understand you correctly there are plenty of existing school systems that successfully hire and retain people with differing gender identities. If that is true what is the imperative or over riding reason for covering school systems in ENDA? Why not let them continue to be successful and exempt them from ENDA in a "swap" to get the bill to the house floor. That would remove Lafferty's ammunition entirely."
Because even the most cursory of examinations reveals that, there are no broadly consistent standards to guide school districts toward an understanding and respect of gender variance. Allowing schools to opt out of ENDA will have the effect of placing that knowledge forever out of reach. Leaving respect of our individual humanity to the demonstrated wisdom of the “torches and pitchforks” crowd has not worked out so well, has it Deena?
I often wonder, if it were possible to globally shift the paradigm in an instant to an acceptance of gender variance as an intrinsic part of a holistic understanding of gender as both fluid and constructed, what sort of world might we have? When you spend much time being gender variant (and simultaneously studying the sociological phenomenon of gender expression), you soon realize that our shared bigotries are built upon that most ephemeral and corruptible of foundations . . .
Ignorance . . . Natch
Thus, education seems an effective answer to building that strong foundation wherewith to teach children that difference is not evil.
As constructions go, the faith in an invisible Deity that "instructs" the faithful to visit such perversions of humanity upon their fellow human being can only be seen as similarly ephemeral . . . and (if not entirely corrupt) then certainly corruptible.
You hate me - WHY?
Because, in the final analysis you're different and my god (and my genes) have taught me to hate and fear that difference.
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