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[furrbear]

Racheline Maltese, rm, has written a wonderful essay everyone should read.

equality isn't actually a subject for debate
I live in a country where it is illegal for me to have the same rights as a cisgendered person in a heterosexual relationship. That's what the Defense of Marriage Act and a host of other laws addressing the lives of GBLTQ people mean.

But here's the thing -- and I assume this is preaching to the choir, but one never really knows who is going to stumble on my life journal -- actually all this DoMA and related stuff effects you, the cisgendered straight people too.

Really.

Because you never, ever know what your life is going to look like.

Read the rest. Go on... Seriously, would I steer you wrong?

Comments

[nightfallcub.livejournal.com]

well, it was a good entry, but she lost me at the use of the term "cisgendered". I fucking HATE that term. I'm all for Trans-rights, but I think it's just another way of trans-people thinking that they're martyred and "different, yet special". ugh.

[cimarrondfw.livejournal.com]

Well-stated. There really is no argument.

[bookish-cub.livejournal.com]

I must be out of the loop here...what does cisgendered mean?

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

One's sexual identity is congruent to one's genetic sexuality; e.g., you have X&Y chromosomes and identify as a male.

Don't feel bad, I had an idea of it's meaning from knowing cis- from organic chem, but looked it up with Google's define: keyword.