8 Matching Annotations
  1. Sep 2017
    1. The question is should gender identity be added to anti-discrimination laws. Browsing the internet, I came across a video of a transgender lady giving a speech about her life and what she encountered during her change and what kind of feedback she received. Seeking her own rights as an individual, she composed an email she sent out to her coworkers discussing her gender identity.

      Beautifully written!

    1. laws because I myself respect anyone despite their personal feelings and decisions. I can understand how it feels to stand out from everyone so passing the law would mean getting justice for those who stand out.

      This seems like a different, another, point of view. Some say it's dangerous because sex change medicine is still new and to encourage sex change by enacting laws tacitly supporting transgender identities is to encourage transgender people to engage in risky medicine; Some say laws supporting transgender identity endangers children; Some say transgender identity laws support the humanity of transgender people; AND some say laws should support everyone's personal choices. Are these last two synonymic?

    2. Coming from an article from the German Institute of Youth and Society, they believe we should not proceed with this action because it can cause damage in the long run.

      German? Why cite an article from Germany?

    3. enforcing this law will not completely stop the hate

      Nice acknowledgement here of the complexity of the issue. If "stopping the hate" isn't the point of the laws, what is?

    4. Known as “gender identity” meaning a person’s internal sense of being male, female, some combination of male and female, or neither male nor female. “Gender identity.”

      What do you mean here? The sentence fragment is confusing.

    5. Including the discrimination against race, color, religion, etc., should we make it illegal in all 50 states to discriminate against one individual who believes he or she should be of the other gender

      What does this mean? I think several ideas are smushed into one sentence here, resulting in confusion.

    6. Anti-discrimination laws are laws that serve the right to the people to all be treated as one. T

      What do you mean by this?

    7. Gender Identity laws.. Should they or should they not be added to our anti-discrimination laws?

      Instead of '...' how about ':'? Nice start. Clarifies the controversy.