First of all I was pretty shocked that the Daily Trojan chose to run this article in their paper. The bold statements the author made were clearly biased without any researched data. I especially found this statement rather offensive, "We should instead be more accepting of the people who aren’t as comfortable with working with people who identify as transgenders." So by this reasoning if someone is uncomfortable working with a Mexican or African American person the uncomfortable person is the one we should sympathize with and "help." This reasoning is what contributes to widespread discrimination of race, gender, social economic standings etc. Weather or not a person is comfortable working with an individual from the LGBT community should not take away that persons rights in the work force. Just because they identify outside of normal gender constructions it does not mean that they are a different species and therefore should not have the same natural rights as every other human. This type of ignorance is astounding.
I also found it interesting how the author of this article mentioned the fine line between imposing and accepting. Just because the author may chose to be blind to what important issues are at hand this sense of ignoring the issue can not and should not be tolerated. People are not only discriminated against, but they are actually murdered because of their gender identification and murder is not right no matter what side of the issue you stand on. If you do not impose laws to protect these individuals than there will be no accepting.
- Mandi Brooksbank
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