Would you all, as transgender advocates, tell your transgender friends to wait until the ENDA can include polyamorous people, and to content themselves with no rights at all until the ENDA does include the polyamorous?

If only 1 in 4 of them could get fulltime work in one of the most liberal states of the union...

If 30% of them gave up and suicided...

If 90% of them died prematurely because of the persecution they got...

If they had supported us in the past, even during campaigns that caused their existing rights to be lost...

Then not just Yes, but Hell Yes! I can't understand how anyone couldn't.

But that's me, and I don't expect others to live up to standards I set for myself, but can't justify logically.

Anonymous 5:54 - yes in all the kerfuffle, neither "side" (and how bad is it when there are "sides") - has mentioned the Intersexed.

My son is mildly Intersexed, not severe but moderate hypospadias. Really bad chordee too, so genital reconstruction was needed before his gender became apparent, to avoid pain. We hope we guessed right. We opted for the minimum needed, to allow him to decide on further surgery later.

A T-inclusive ENDA would prevent your child from being fired, or prevented from using either restroom at work because of his non-conforming genitalia. ADA doesn't cover everything.

Your child is no more likely to be Gay than any other kid, and only 10% of IS people have significant issues with gender. (2 separate issues there, one sexual orientation, the other gender).

Phalloplasty is also getting better all the time, just ask some FtoMs who had less than your child does.

Please be open to possibilities that your child may be male, female, straight, gay, lesbian, bi.... but that they will likely need continued medical care all their life, and unless prepared to "go stealth" will get prejudice from many groups, including GLB ones. From some comments here, especially GLB ones.

You'll find URLs of IS support groups on the TS-101 page I've mentioned in other posts. No we don't expect IS people to be "out and proud" if they can possibly keep things quiet in their personal lives. Too many don't understand. Heck, even I pretend I'm standard TS usually, not IS.

Feel free to contact me privately on this, maybe I can help.