Transgender community and identical liberties (regarding the Oct. 22 Daily Forty-Niner article “Excluding transgenders shouldn’t stop gay bill) mean in order to achieve the same rights without compromise, there are no other options than unequivocal equality, period.
Denying unequivocal equality, along with basic human and civil rights inclusion for those labeled as being “different” within our society is unconscionable and unacceptable.
Victims of violence, hatred, discrimination, bias and unprogressive judgment must never be subjected, and/or segregated as an isolated entity, to the same intolerances from those who fervently pursue identical liberties.
When a group of people, once oppressed, becomes the oppressors, how does their insistence for equality become rational? The LGBT community, along with their allies, must construct a firm foundation of harmony and unwavering solidarity in order to achieve unconditional inclusion, as well as basic human and civil rights, bringing to fruition a positive, contemporary solution, not regression.
My interest and involvement in politics has stretched as far back as three decades. What I have learned within that period is that, when pandering candidates’ agendas, one can be assimilated as if they are leopards putting on a shirt and tie in an effort to hide their spot’s.
Being cautiously optimistic is truly a virtue.
– Mekah Gordon, Ph.D., L. E., Founder / CEO S. U. R. E. FoundationSanta Fe, N.M.
