Kalamazoo Ordinance Foes Target Trans Women

Very upsetting to me that this is such a divisive and turbulent issue. Diversity is a blessing. Not a curse. I hope we can see beyond all the bs and do the prevent discrimination in our community.

Speaking as someone who is included in the group which is the target of these quacks, makes me wonder how she retains her job at I believe Western Michigan University as an instructor! I hope that any Transgender, or Gay or Lesbian who reads these remarks and is going to the institution she teaches at registers a strong complaint about her statements. She has appears to have violated some of the laws governing the treatment of privacy for Medical Professionals by mentioning the transwomen she did. Additionally I have learned that the Trans-woman targeted by these people only wished to use the equipment and did not want to make a point over the use of the showers and locker room. However when she was denied as a result of some sighting the use of those parts of this health club, legal action was basically forced upon her. It is my understanding she was also fully post Op at the time so physically she was a female under the law anyway. Sad. Very Sad.

To Alex: This woman knows she is never going to be the one on the chopping block of gender confusion --- or else she wouldn't be so bold in advocating the persecution of those who are. Even if she *does* get a bad haircut and gets mistaken for a man ---- since she's cissexual, her status as a woman is never going to be under legal question --- so she can get the whole "little misunderstanding" sorted out in no time flat. The core of the matter is --- if she's using a common shower facility, and she's allowed to say that a transwoman there violates her privacy and have that view enshrined in the local laws and policies --- how's that any different than if she decided to say the same about a black woman? And yes --- in the Jim Crowe era, the very same arguments were made for that reason. If she doesn't want to change in front of other women whom SHE considers to be beneath her or less-than-women --- let *her* avoid public locker-rooms -- since she's the one with the problem.

How are they even allowed to display a non-public person's likeness in a political ad? How is a heatlh care provider that has information of an intimate, private and extrmely confidential nature even allowed to disclose that information in such a public area as a TV ad? Its obvious that she has no clue as to the issus that both Transgender and Intersex people face every day. I'm IS and TG becasue of my various medical conditions I do need to disclose that information to my health care providers and it galls me when I see someone proporting to be a health care provider outting a Trans person for ANY reason! Doing this for mere political gain... if a single one of those outted is injured.... *sigh*

I have read the website of these quacks and they are the most fraudulent, ignorant, and plainly impractical group that has ever had the audacity to call itself a voter association. They blatantly lie on medical, psychological, and religious grounds and should be reviewed by voting rights groups in Michigan.

This is a bit disturbing coming from a Nurse who may end up having to care for a transexual woman in her job function. What would she do? Where does she work at? Do they support these thoughts?

And of course the high probability of her being beaten, raped, or worse should she enter a mens room like that never crossed their tiny little minds. Nobody ever wants to focus on how much danger gender non-conforming people are in, they just want to fixate on how 'weird' or 'dangerous' WE are. I bet she wouldn't be so vocal against trans people if someone ever mistook her as a man when she was going to the bathroom. All it takes is one bad haircut, lady, and then you're the one who's getting screamed at.

Yet another good reason to leave MI and pay taxes elsewhere - taxes that won't be used to discriminate against our community.