The opposition hears this voice as hate. The New York Times op/ed writer certainly thinks the opponents are haters and takes an extreme position that this will result in teenage transgender suicides.
Sometime in the near future, a transgender teenager in Texas will attempt suicide — and maybe succeed — because vilifying people for their gender identity remains politically acceptable in America.
The hateful rhetoric of leaders like Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is the latest, ugliest example. Mr. Patrick was ebullient on Tuesday night after it became clear that Houston voters had decidedly rejected a broad equal rights ordinance that opponents maliciously and misleadingly characterized as a boon for cross-dressing sex offenders.
He goes on to write that the opposition used fear-mongering to rally the vote and that there is no evidence of peeping Tom’s or rapists due to accommodating transgenders in bathrooms. This statement is false. There have been reports on campuses that have this transgender rule and the schools are now reconsidering their policies.
The author writes:
As opponents of the ordinance celebrate their victory this week, transgender people across the country are understandably reeling. They should take comfort in knowing that history will not be kind to the haters who won on Tuesday. In time, the bigots are destined to lose.
The victory was not about hate or bigotry, but rather the voice of a population that had no say in the original legislation. We are a country of “by the people, for the people” and when a infinitesimal part of the population gets to dictate what the rest of the people must do to accommodate them, it hampers the democratic process. This process was allowed to work in Houston. Give the transgenders their own bathroom, but don’t force the rest of the population to be infringed upon while using the bathroom.
Source: The New York Times
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