This article is very offensive and ignorant. She says we all deserve our rights, yet she says we need to support people who are unaccepting of equality, which seems like her. She doesn't believe that gender identity and expression is a big of an issue to make laws about, as she says "surely there are larger problems to worry about." When she says this, it seems as if she is not thinking about those who she is talking about and as if she doesn't realize that most of the students at the school (school that is located in Los Angeles "where people tend to be more accepting of an individual's preferred sexual orientation or identity")read this article, including transgender people and the supporters.
Also, when she says "people who choose to identify themselves in a different way need to be aware of the effects of such decisions", what different is she referring to? Isn't she different from all people? Aren't we all different from each other?
She says lots of things that she does not or cannot support.
Especially at the last paragraph, she talks as if addressing issues regarding transgender is not worthy of time. She recommends to address issues about worse forms of injustice rather than transgender, which is a "personal issue". But she needs to realize that every individual has personal issues and there is no such thing as "worse" discrimination. Discrimination is discrimination. Any form of discrimination should be addressed just as equally as any other form of discrimination.
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