Transgender advocates slam Pawlenty over Newsweek interview

I’d like to see a reporter get a reaction about this from Susan Kimberley, a transgendered person who has been on the staff of Norm Coleman, among others.

I know exactly what you mean, Governor.

I started out with someone who looked like a Governor and then showed up as a selfish a$$hole who would do anything to pander to right wing extremists.

Yes, it is confusing.

I don’t like pawlenty but he made a good call on this one.

seriously who would want their kids going to school with a freak show for a teacher? maybe a GLT parent but thats about it.

Bud grew up thinking he was sniffing his mom’s dirty panties, but found out later the panties were really his dad’s.

Just proves that hate is infectious. The source of his hatred – that is wwhat it is, is the Catholic church. Who defeated gay marriage in maine by a video saying that kids would learn gay marriage in school, and that teachers would cocme out of the closet.

Well the kids really need to learn something about the Catholic church from grade 1

For decades it raped children, and when the rapists were discovered, moved them to a new location where they could start again.

It blamed the gay priests. But just recently the Bishops $1.8million report on this horrible problem said that gay priests were no more guilty then str8 priests.

And the same exact thing is coming out in Ireland – decades of sexual abuse of children by the church

And the christian Brotherhood, anything but true to Jesus words, has been found beating, half starving , essentially turning children into factory slave workers. And of ocurse sexual abuse also. This is in Ireland also, and possibly in Italy.

Why were these crimes hidden so long and allowed to continue? Because the priests brought in money. And most likely the rot reaches way up into the top of the heirarchy.

The church has become totally corrupted, and worse under Benedict. Who with his words and world wide platform, in his xmas address of 2008, said that gender theory – the science of understanding that some people are born gay, some are born trans, and some are actually born as partially both sexes, would bring about the end of mankind.

Benedict knows what he is doing – licensing the murder of gay and trans people, while he rattles on about “life”

Every self respecting Catholic should close their pocketbook to the church. And then it may change.

Showing that the church actually worships the golden calf, and the root of all its evil is money.

Our extended family of 43 people has now only about 4 who still call them selves catholic. And many of us are demanding to be excommunicated from the Church of vile crimes and sin.

Again, why exactly, Katie, do you need a church as a conduit to your Lord?
It has been proven over and again that organized religion only wants your money and your submissiveness.
If the Lord truly exists, He needs no requirement of a so called go-between of a priest or reverend.
Speak to God daily, or whenever you can, and He will absolve you without the guilt of religion.
He neither wants or requires your hard earned wages.

[...] The National Transgender Campaign for Equality took Pawlenty to task in a statement on Monday. [...]

Unfortunately Mr. Pawlenty knows not what he speaks. Of the transgender teachers I know (only a few) their transitions were planned well in advance, with full knowledge of school administration. Lesson plans were developed for students to educate them about being transgender – what it is and what it isn’t. Too bad Mr. Pawlenty missed that class.

Seems to me students are better off when they see first-hand how the real world works and have teachers, transgendered or not, who care about them.

Too bad Mr Pawlenty speaks from both sides of his mouth – disgusting.

There is a great deal of discrimination against transgendered Minnesotan’s, despite the law. We are the last group who it is safe to ridicule. Right wing, fundamentalist, republicans are the worst, but not the only ones. I really don’t know what we can do to fight against the hateful thinking that is behind it. How do we counter what they hear in church and read in the bible? The hate mongers are gaining in power and those that promised to make things better, including Obama, are doing nothing.

Katie, I used to be a catholic. I tried to join a religious order on a couple of occassions. The last time in the ’80s I was kicked out because of “gender confusion.” It was interesting to me that the vatican sent a priest to investigate the religious order and he was a pedophile. For years I sought to be “saved” from my gender identity and all it brought was pain to both myself and others. Too many years and they have left me with very painful memories back to when I was a young child with a bigoted, homo/transphobic, hateful and very religious father. All of the churches are based on a delusion that there is a god, that there’s an afterlife and especially that god is patriarchal. What society needs is freedom FROM religion, not “reform.” How this is to be accomplished I have no idea. I say this despite having been a Quaker and a Unitarian Universalist, both very progressive religions. Even the Quakers have fallen under the spell of evangelical christianity during these past years. When I transitioned I was attending Friends/Quaker meeting and one of the elders launched a campaign to get me shunned. She said that she had been born with a male personality but that it was a matter of karma that we were born the wrong sex. It seems internalized transphobia is one of our greatest enemies.

Jesus would love transgendered people. For the most part we wish to live our lives in honesty but do not because of the fear that is generated by relious zealots and uneducated people. Jesus wishes us to be honest and loving in every aspect of life. That is a transgendered dream. Thank you God for loving us enough to give us surgeons to fix what sin took away from us. Sin in the wolrd caused us to be born incorrectly. God in His compassion gave men and women doctors the intellect and skill to make us correct.

These views are mine because God gave me the mind of Christ.
Born male in body but female thanks to God.

Barbara

Please pray for Sarah Palin that God will open up her heart and her bitterness will turn to joy and she will learn how to love through Gods heart and not her heart of stone.

[...] of Minnesota wants to do away with that state’s trans-employment protection law.  The Minnesota Independent has reaction to his comments in [...]

A teacher has the right to change his or her physical appearance to suit his or her gender, just as any other human being on this planet. There needs to be a civil method or procedure in place to execute such a transition.

Certainly showing up on one day, presenting as one sex and another day as the opposite sex is just a tad bit extreme and rude. However, if a teacher should decide to make such a change, the state should provide the necessary means to facilitate such a change as gracefully as possible.

After the transition (possibly over the summer), the teacher could be transferred to another school ( in a large populous city), or possibly another school district within fifty miles of the teacher’s residence.

There’s no need to dramatize and exaggerate the situation due to the governor’s own latent prejudice against the transgendered.