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> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 01:08:55 -0300
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> Subject: [CTRL] How is your gender appearance? (fwd)
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> How is your gender appearance?
>
> http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20010725-471489.htm
>
> Is there such a thing as the "gay agenda"? In other words, are efforts to
> enact various laws, such as those forbidding "discrimination" against
> homosexuals and allowing gay "marriage" simply the leading edge of an
> ever-broadening assault upon traditional norms and values, as conservatives
> have argued for years?
Lets hope so. "traditional norms and values" have allowed violence to
children and women, slavery, religious intolerance, social selfishness, and
a general lack of freedom in thought and action.
>Here's a test case to help you decide.
>
> In Sacramento, Calif., state legislators are poised to pass a bill that
> would prohibit bias against - and here we quote the report of this
> newspaper's Thomas D. Elias - "Transsexuals, drag queens, effeminate men,
> 'butch' women and anyone else who doesn't manifest common sex traits and
> behavior." The bill has already passed the state Assembly and prospects
> appear good for eventual passage in the state Senate. Its chief sponsor,
> Democratic Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg, says her measure merely "adds
> gender-appearance discrimination to sex discrimination in the state's Fair
> Employment and Housing Act." Her bill would require, among other things,
> that workers notify their employers of their sexual identity - or pending
> "change" - before making any claims of sex-gender-appearance discrimination.
>
> Hmm. Gender-appearance discrimination? "This would turn the 'Rocky Horror
> Picture Show' into California labor law," said Republican Assemblyman Ken
> Maddox, one of the bill's most vocal foes. The "Rocky Horror Picture Show"
> was a film about a cross-dressing Transylvanian transvestite drag queen
> named Dr. Frank N. Furter and his menagerie of human oddities. The good
> doctor wore garters and lacy stockings, along with a bodice - attire that
> would, apparently, comprise legitimate, or at least legally unassailable,
> office fashion under Ms. Goldberg's proposed bill. In fact, pretty much
> anything would be sacrosanct because the language of the law is pretty
> fuzzy - including such hard-to-pin-down terms as "perception," "identity,"
> "appearance" and "behavior." Conservative groups worry that the loose
> language of the bill would effectively render it impossible for employers
> to discipline employees or request that they abstain from any apparel that
> might be considered central to their "identity," "appearance" or
> "behavior." Art Croney of the conservative Committee on Moral Concerns said
> his group has "sympathy for people who are really confused about their
> gender . . . but they don't need affirmation at the expense of employers
> and schoolchildren."
>
what a load of crap. we have dress codes in the business place. A woman
today cannot show up at the average workplace in a garter belt lacey
stockings and a bodice, so there is no reason to assume a cross dressing man
would be allowed to dress this way at work either. This is the usual smoke
blowing to cover up the point of the law. the law exists to protect people.
If a man works for me, and gets the job done, i dont care what sort of
panties he wears.
> Gov. Gray Davis is fuzzy, too. So far, he has issued no comment on the
> legislation. In any event, California being a bellwether state,
> gender-appearance protection may soon be coming to an office, school or
> state agency near you. You'll have to decide for yourself whether that
> comprises an "agenda" or not.
>
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