LGB?

House Approves Employment Nondiscrimination Act

I approach this with mixed feelings. While something of a pragmatist myself, I always consider it the role of government to advocate the most idealistic position, because everyone knows that, in practice, everything is several degrees from perfect.

In this case, it means if you're going to pass anti-discrimination legislation meant to buffer the sexually unorthodox, you have to include the entire LGBT, not "everyone except the tricky transsexuals." After all, if the Democrats aren't going to stick up for transgendered people, who will? Certainly not employers who are sexualphobic to begin with. And let's face it - most of us don't know enough transgendered individuals to create a successful grass-roots movement.

I can only hope this will set up an adequate legal precedent/argument so that transsexuals will eventually be covered under this act too.