Lawyers for President Obama are quietly drafting first-of-their kind guidelines barring workplace discrimination against transgender federal employees, officials said Tuesday.OBAMA IS PUTTING US ON A SLIPPERY SLOPE. (YES: NORMALIZING DEVIANCY IS A SLIPPERY SLOPE!)
The guidelines will be in an updated federal handbook for managers and supervisors to be distributed and posted online in the next couple of months, and they could also be included in other materials for managers. They will list transgender people — those who identify their gender differently from the information on their birth certificates — as among several groups protected by antidiscrimination laws.
Though transgender men and women are not believed to make up more than a fraction of a percent of the federal work force, their inclusion in the discrimination guidelines is seen as a breakthrough by transgender and gay rights advocates.
“The president is making a very clear statement that transgender people won’t be discriminated against,” said Mara Keisling, the executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, a group that has been talking with the White House about the new provisions.
IMMORAL AND AMORAL LEADERS USUALLY DO.
UNTIL TODAY. OBAMA HAD HARSHER THINGS TO SAY ABOUT WATER-BOARDING THAN ABOUT IRAN'S MURDERING UNARMED DEMONSTRATORS.
OBAMA DEMANDS ISRAEL STOPS ALL BUILDING IN ALL SETTLEMENTS, BUT MERELY POLITELY ASKS ABBAS TO TONE DOWN THE ANTISEMITIC RHETORIC IN THE PALI PRESS AND SCHOOLS.
THESE AREN'T "DOUBLE STANDARDS"; THEY'RE "NO STANDARDS" OR "BAD STANDARDS" OR "UPSIDE-DOWN STANDARDS".
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American Power tracked-back with, "Protecting the Transgendered, Normalizing Deviancy?".
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