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From Queer Channel Media:
Few gay Americans understand their basic rights, according to an analysis released this week.
Based on the responses of 768 gays, lesbians and bisexuals to a national poll given in November, the analysis found that most respondents could not correctly answer four questions regarding their state and federal rights.
“I think ‘ignorant’ is the right word, unfortunately,” said Pat Egan, an assistant professor of politics at New York University who is gay and helped write the analysis.
The poll by City University of New York’s Hunter College asked whether same-sex marriages were legal in the respondent’s state, if the U.S. Constitution bans same-sex marriage, whether gays can serve openly in the U.S. military and if there’s a federal law barring the firing of workers based on their sexual orientation.
Wow.
No questions about trans rights.
Call me shocked.
Of course, if you do. I’ll call you ‘wrong.’
Marty Rouse, national field director for Human Rights Campaign, said he was “discouraged” by the finding and that it demonstrated the need for further education.
It appears as though the Scampaign wasn’t involved with this survey. However, whenever I see any schlockagandist from the Rhode Island Avenue Cesspool of Transphobia talk about the need for more education, my gag reflex kicks in.
Other new findings from the poll, which was funded by HRC and controlled by Hunter College, showed the respondents’ priorities for gay civil rights issues.
According to the analysis, gay, lesbian and bisexual respondents generally placed laws regarding workplace discrimination hate crimes as their top issues. Efforts toward ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and securing rights for transgender people scored the lowest.
My, my my!
It looks as though the Scampaign did have a hand in it!
And look at how “laws regarding workplace discrimination” and “rights for transgender people” appear to be separate - and exclusionary - line items.
Call me shocked.
Of course, if you do. I’ll call you ‘wrong.’
And I’ll continue to call the Scampaign the Rhode Island Avenue Cesspool of Transphobia.
If the Cesspool’s ‘education’ efforts haven’t even convinced most GLBs of the existing state of the law, why should trans people believe that the Cesspool is even doing - much less succeeding at - any legit education of anyone, much less Congress, as to “laws regarding workplace discrimination” and “rights for transgender people” are not mutually exclusive?
Appletinis for the house!
On Pee Wee’s tab!
