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How did the T get in LGBT?

The 30-year fight for a federal gay civil rights law may fail because activists insist on including rights for transgendered people too. Has gay inclusiveness gone too far too fast?

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  • Sunday, October 7, 2007 06:54 PM

    other than the haircut

    how are lesbians like gays? there are HUGE fights in the taxonomy community between the "splitters" and the "lumpers" - that is those who want to put as many individuals as possible into a species and those who wish to separate them. in politics too, the left were notorious splitters while the right were lumpers. some like to think we are all different individuals while others prefer to think humanity is the prime category. it's a fundamental division. i have a solution. why don't you consider yourselves falling under the "Americans for Disabilities Act?" - after all, not being able to reproduce normally is a psychosexual disability? no?

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