Fema Employment - Would you support federal protection for Transgendered people?

Would you support federal protection for Transgendered people?

Current federal hate crimes law does not cover anti-transgender hate crimes. Currently only six states and 60 + localities have laws that protect transgender people from discrimination in employment. Transgender people frequently face untrained, insensitve or hostile health care providers who either cannot or will not adequately treat us. The criminal justice system subjects transgender people to harsh and unequal treatment. Transgender people are often refused access to gender-appropriate facliities like bathrooms, locker rooms and housing.

Public Comments

I myself being transgendered would support it big time. I was unaware that the law doesn't cover transgendered people..and am completely baffled.
I would support that because all people deserve protection
No I would not.
Yes, totally!!!
Yes. Trans can be great people.
No I wouldnt support it. Personally I think it's a waste. I know I'll get criticized for saying this but oh well. Your born a male or a female and sure you can have a sex change and what not but what annoys me the most is when someone is born a male then changes to female and they call them ms,miss whatever, your always going to be a male to be and you cant change that - same goes for the other way around.
Now businesses have to have four bathrooms??? Mens Room, Ladies Room, whatever and whatever?? No Support.........but hate crimes are sickening.........
Yes, I do support it and it disgusts me that the supposed "land of the free" does not have those laws.
I would support it. The world is slow to realize there are many different sexes; not just male and female. I am a shade between the two; and i get no protection, and I get no action.
I believe all people should be treated equally. I understand the reluctance society has to allowing access to certain facilities. I understand how uncomfortable that would be... however, I'm not sure it should matter that much. Most situations shouldn't really cause much trouble. As for hate crimes. I think that any time a person commits a crime on another citizen for a specific reason about that person <hate crime> it should have a penalty above and beyond the normal penalty for the same crime. It should be the same for a straight on gay crime as a person commits a crime on a toothless hillbilly because they are uneducated and married to their first cousin. It should be the same hard time for either situation. I'm not sure hate crime legislation needs to list the people it protects. I believe it should be written to include everybody. Not just specific minorities.
Of course I would support it....even if I wasn't trans myself. It's only right.
I'm not in the States, but I'll celibate when (if ever) something like that gets passed in America. Personally, I think it's intelligent of employers to put their own policies in place and shouldn't have to be mandated to. And workplaces and public buildings would do well to have gender neutral options for bathrooms and locker space. Justice has never been blind.... and housing, well I'm lucky enough to have a job that I can pay for my house so I don't have to rely on project homes. I'm not really informed on the housing situations, so I won't speak on those. That's just the 2 cents of a transguy in Canada....
Of course transgendered people deserve protection. Everyone deserves the same equality. They aren't protected because many people don't understand it..but if they took the same too.. they would realize that they are people too and that they can't change their inner feelings no matter how hard they try. Plus, there are so many hate crimes against transgendered people.. it's ridiculous that they don't get protected..
i think hate crimes are the stupidest thing the courts have ever come up with. I thourght that justice was blind (Not only to the criminal but the victim too) a crime is a crime is a crime regardles of motive) That's because bosses don't like liars. like If you're filling out an aplication and select 'Female' for sex when your chromosomes say XY. what did you expect a uterologist to do? O RLY? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media:Buffalo8.ogg) you can sit down in then men's bathroom too
Of course I do. The people that say no are IGNORANT. Take this case of Gwen Araujo. 3 guys had sex with her and when they discovered her status they beat and tortured her for HOURS before she died. Then drove hours to the mountains buried her body. Then there was a hung jury. At the second trial they still only got manslaughter (not murder) and one guy, probably the most guilty, got off. And to top it all off the jury said it wasn't a hate crime. WTF!?!? If she wasn't trans she wouldn't have been killed. The hate crimes bill wouldn't allow a jury to do that and would provide federal resources to push the case as many time the locals try to sweep it all under the rug.
Yes I would support it
Well I am not in the states but I would support it
Definitely.
Laws are violence. I'd much rather use persuasion and boycotts against private discrimination, but we do not have these choices against state discrimination, and the state harshly restricts these choices against private discrimination. We *need* to get rid of all the state-sponsored discrimination, including all the catch-22 laws. Using one law to defend ourselves against another law is an awful necessity. We *need* to get rid of transphobic juries. Do hate crime laws help with that or distract from that?
Absolutely. Transpeople face terrible violence. Everyday I go outside I face the prospect of being killed or assaulted if I am "read" by anyone. We don't just get killed, we get killed in horrific ways. Stabbed 63 times, run over by a car.....six times, beaten to death by a hammer, it's awful. And the police are often the biggest transgressors. How can you not be for trans protections......unless you like pulling the wings off butterflies.
Absolutely. Every day at least one transgendered person is killed for being who they are in America. Considering the ratio of transgendered to non-transgendered people in America that is a huge percentage of transgendered people. And it doesn't take into account anyone who survives violent crime. Insurance companies cover all the treatments that transgenders need but often will not cover them if the reason they are needed is because they are transgendered only for other illnesses. Employers who are not allowed to discriminate for sex get away with discriminating for being transgendered in any states causing highly intelligent, otherwise successful people to end up being forced into untrained, low paying jobs. The laws need to change to protect transgendered people. They can't help that they have the issues they have any more than a cancer patient can help having bad cells.