PinK or BluE..WhicH is It?

WASHINGTON, DC --This past June, The American Civil ahem.. "Liberties" Union filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Library of Congress on behalf of a 25-year veteran of the U.S. Army whose job offer was rescinded after "she"informed the organization that he/she was in the process of transitioning from male to female.
Windy City Timeshas the complete story.

The ACLU charged that the Library of Congress unlawfully refused to hire Schroer in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which protects against sex discrimination in the workplace. The lawsuit also claimed that the Library's action violated Schroer's constitutional right to be free from discrimination, and violates the Library's own legal mandate to hire based only on merit.

Art Spitzer, Legal Director of the ACLU of the National Capital Area commented: "No one should have to fear being passed over for a job simply because of his or her gender identity, but this case is especially shameful."

Let's see now. "Simply because of his/her gender identity?..As if there is anything remotely simple about a man wanting to become a woman????

Dave Schroer confides...that even as a child, before puberty, he felt he was "different." "He began periodic “cross-dressing as a coping mechanism, not really understanding why,” and poured himself into work, first school, then the Army and a 16-year marriage."

Dave who is now called Diane (I know, stay with me on this one)..
"says things really began to change about five or six years ago, and credits the anonymity of the Internet with making that possible. “It allowed me to go and find information, sort it, and find what I thought was credible and discard the rest.”

Transgender chat rooms were a revelation. He/She says, “The jigsaw pieces at that point kind of settled into place and there was a dawn of understanding at that point.”

"Schroer has gone through most of the steps of a transition and will fully complete the process within a year. For all practical intents and purposes she comes across as “just a big girl, a woman who has spent a lot of time in the Army.”

Just a big girl..?...um..but she's not a girl...she's a man who is trying to somehow become a girl.

"Diane - the night after the job offer at the Library of Congress was withdrawn, drafted a complaint and sent it off the next day.
The answer came back, while what occurred might have been discrimination, it wasn't illegal because transgendered individuals are not covered under the law. Case closed.

That same evening Dave/Diane had gone online and filled out an application for assistance with the American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ) . They quickly agreed to take on the case and sent a letter to the Library on her behalf. It drew the same response.

The next step was to file suit; Schroer v. Billington was filed on June 2. It charges that the Library discriminated against Schroer “because he/she departs from sex stereotypes and otherwise because of his/her gender.”

However-Changing one's gender is not the equilvalent of changing one's hair color, much as the Liberals would have you believe.

"The interpersonal difficulties.. which transgender persons experience can play a large role in causing or aggravating depression..."Coming-out," disclosure concerns, balancing transition costs, social isolation, family rejection, and being single or unable to find acceptance from a significant other, are some of the recognizable sources of depression in transgender persons. Less frequently acknowledged contributors to depression include; unresolved gender identity conflicts in pre and post-operative persons, pre and post-surgical emotional adjustment, poor body image and low self-esteem.
Transgender Issues and Depression
Transgender hormone administration also may play a causal role in depression. Because hormones are powerful chemicals, an increase or decrease in dosage can bring on changes in mood."

People who experience extreme conflict between their birth sex and their gender identity have a myriad of other problems..as simple common sense would dictate.
Stress, anxiety,and at times severe depression, just to name a few.

Hollywood may have a vested interest in portraying this as merely a "change" one makes in one's life, much like choosing a different color scarf.... or that the healing they do need , if any ,is not from their blatant confusion and utter inner chaos but simply the stigmatization of "hetero-sexist" beliefs of our society.

And we all know who are the first to hitch their wagon on that train.

Leave it to the ACLU to launch yet another attempt to positively brand and over-simplify an issue as complex as this, where ethics and moral values come into question, not to mention our idea of mental health.

If this strategy seems eerily familiar, it's because it is. It has been relentlessly used by liberals in conjunction with the ACLU endearing themselves to one another because they ask so very little of themselves...or of one another for that matter.

What's your take?
A man who tries to become a woman?..Simple as that...somehow..I don't think so.


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