Readers' best comments: If Obama did it, Sessions is not having it
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said federal civil rights law doesn’t protect transgender people from discrimination in the workplace, reversing an Obama administration policy. Comments are edited for clarity and grammar:
Everybody who is not white better be careful with Sessions in charge. Whatever President Obama’s name is on, he will change. Whatever it is, it does not matter!
— Thomas H. Evans
All U.S.citizens should have equal rights and not be discriminated against! Sessions is not the Supreme Court, and this decision will surely be revised by the justices. Transgender people don’t go back and forth. Me being one of them.
— Marcus Vittitow
Sessions is right. Psychiatrist Pula J. Drescher surveyed studies in 2014 from various countries and concluded that only “6% to 23% of boys and 12% to 27% of girls treated in gender clinics showed persistence of their gender dysphoria into adulthood.”
Therefore, most transgendered children will cease feeling that they are trapped in a body of the wrong sex. It’s a reasonable inference that more persistent transgender feelings are a delusion.
— Aaron Clark
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Let all transgender individuals run to the unemployment offices, Social Security offices, food stamps offices, Medicaid offices and apply, apply, apply!
Since the government does not believe in liberty and justice for all, then let the citizens pay for their housing, food and medical. How about that bigots?
— Marlena-Gabrielle Alvarado
Can I go to my workplace and shout “I’m Napoleon Bonaparte” and demand special treatment? Nope. Mental illness should not be legitimized.
— Maria McDorman
How can Sessions, or anyone, seriously suggest that transgender American citizens don’t have the exact same rights and protections as any other citizen in this country?
Sessions and his ilk are bigots, exploiting lapses in current laws, which Republicans certainly have no intentions of ever fixing or remedying.
— Pete Miller
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