Comments on: Transgender Democrat Elected Treasurer of Oregon State Party

By: killfile

killfile — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:11:31 +0000

Portland is also the largest US city with an openly gay mayor, Sam Adams.

By: kcwells

kcwells — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:26:50 +0000

Let’s celebrate the dawn of a political climate change where we leave the tired and obsolete practice of prejudice and intolerance to face the music of loving acceptance and dance together.

I’m glad I lived long enough to see this happen.

Hurray!

By: Knut

Knut — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:05:58 +0000

Happy to see it happen. I have a friend — very famous — who transgendered at an advanced age. I’d known him (now her) for 35 years as a colleague, and when I learned of the change I thought it was a bad joke. It took a while to adjust to. It’s not easy for people my age, and I think for people of any age. It was tough on his(her) kids, and they haven’t reconciled.

I know some others who’ve gone through the change. I guess it’s all for the best, but I feel sorry for them. Born with a genetic disorder. The ones I know were at first extremely self-centered — it’s the big thing in their lives, you know. But the rest of us have lives, too, and it gets tiresome. And the men never really stop being men, even after the change. I’m talking about doing the dishes and picking up towels off the bathroom floor and such.

I’m happy people are accepting. It’s important. But I still feel very sad for those who have to go through the change.

By: Millineryman

Millineryman — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:44:23 +0000

Bravo and thanks for sharing this Teddy.

By: Teddy Partridge

Teddy Partridge — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:32:37 +0000

Well, it is news in that it’s new.

At some time in the future, perhaps it won’t be news.

And yes, it’s probably sad that it’s news, but that doesn’t make it not-news, does it?

By: DWBartoo

DWBartoo — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:50:10 +0000

I would suggest, Nahant, that a very huge payment, many painful years’ worth, has already been made to the angry bigots, the fearful haters and their crazed ‘leadership’, not to mention the blind ‘indifference’ which the ‘law’ has paid to basic assaults upon equality and justice.

I suspeculate that as momentum is gained, we shall witness unhinged apoplexy and brutal denial until the critical mass of understanding is reached. (We are getting closer to such understanding, every day … and we shall have ‘arrived’ when, as kimmy suggests, it is no longer ‘news’.)

By: nahant

nahant — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:44:24 +0000

ET is upstairs at the Mother ship Pups.

By: nahant

nahant — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:33:47 +0000

(even if the religiously self-righteous initially choke on it).

Now that is something I would pay to see!

By: katymine

katymine — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:32:02 +0000

We have the same here….. prop 102 passed with McCain making ads for it.

By: katymine

katymine — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:28:53 +0000

I agree….

Maricopa County Democrats (AZ) the 4th largest county in the US last two year term had an gay as Treasurer and if I went through the list of officers I could find more either current or past. Now I can’t say for transgender but we have a state representative who is BI which many met in Chicago during the 2nd Yearlykos.