discrimination here is worse

Muslims are prohibited from transgendering and are usually victimised by the police here

I bet.

I take it your country is very religious as a whole, yes?

Perhaps making the transition earlier on in life helps a bit, because since you will still be growing, your body will help you along a bit.

Still a really horrible thing for employers to discriminate just because you've made a certain decision about your body.

it's supposed to be Secular, but in reality, it's pretty Islamicised

Maybe if HHBH lived there, then he can say he feels persecuted :laughing:

it depends, really

we're still pretty much Neo-colonialist, so Caucasians are, more often than not, worshipped

unless he's a hardline fundie Christian

Yup!

Have you seen the guy's lastFM?

newbsdid911

And if he's supposed to be a Christian, he's not being very tolerant or serving the Lord here. Would Jesus insult people like he does?

Um, I'm an atheist and a traditionalist. In the political context of the USA, I'd be regarded as a paleoconservative. Hence why, in my signature, I link to my thread about early extreme metal, the american conservative, and my last.fm.

Anyways, others hit on the theme I was hammering on, even if they don't agree with it; mandating hiring/firing practices is a violation of property rights. It's cool if you disagree with me on this subject, but I'm not going to debate it if your arguments are just ad hominems.

Finally, if you want to say something to me you feel you can't say here or elsewhere on the site, feel free to just PM it to me. :)

Telling an employer they "have to hire transgender people" or "they cannot fire transgender people" would violate their property rights, sure. But I don't think that's what we're talking about in the past couple pages. If employers deny employment to individuals, either partially because of, or entirely because of, their gender status, these employers are practicing a form of discrimination that absolutely should not be tolerated.

So it's not that we're saying "you cannot fire transgender people" or "you have to hire transgender people", we're saying "you cannot fire people just because they are transgender" and "you cannot deny employment to people just because they are transgender". There is a difference.