Posted on 09/28/2012 6:20:41 PM PDT by chessplayer
MSNBC doesn't just oppose voter-ID reforms on behalf of blacks. In an interview with the DC gay newspaper The Washington Blade, weekend host Melissa Harris-Perry insisted "voter suppression efforts continue to impact transgender Americans." It came with a lot of leftist lingo.
“They don’t look like what their photo IDs are,” she said. “So if they are self-presenting in front of an election official and they have an ID that says male or female and they’re sort of gender self-presenting in a non-conforming way, of course you end up with the possibility of shame or embarrassment or not being believed to be who you are.” They also don’t have birth certificates with names and gender markers that “are not informative of what their current life is.” Biological truth is an ideological lie:
“All of those things impact the ability of people to have the kind of state-issued ID that is allowable in a lot of these states around voting,” she said. “And so the idea that a person would be a perfectly eligible American citizen who has an opinion about voting and is kept out of it because of those sorts of issues — it goes to the heart of helping us understand that these efforts are really voter suppression efforts, not efforts to keep the election process above board.”
Wouldn't it be easier for election monitors if the "trans voter" presented themselves at the polls in a way that resembled their photo ID? Common sense never gets in the way of the libertine Left.
Harris-Perry complained that some minority actvists are very cool in advocating for "trans people" on this issue. She said she has a better understanding of the issue because she said “her gender non-conforming niece frequently confronts questions when she presents herself as male, but her student ID lists her gender as female.”
We don’t have any laws in America that says that freaks and fruitcakes can’t vote!
Obviously. Look at what they’ve given us. FDR, LBJ, Carter, Clinton, Obama.
They procreate. They outnumber the cognescenti. And, their vote counts as much as ours.
To paraphrase the immortal words of Tiny Tim, “God help us, every one....”
cross dressing perverts were born one way, men are men and women are women.
These sicko’s have some mental issues and they need ot be told of this instead of this crap of it’s OK to be different
I would think that if anyone self presented they would be arrested for indecent exposure.
These ‘persons of transgender’ or whatever should get two votes: one for them and one for the body they’re trapped inside of.
Don’t give them any ideas. Since they claim to be two people in one body, they might actually win something like that (getting to vote twice) in a liberal court.
Whatever......like those 2,000 votes nationwide would make a difference.
It “transgender” a big enough constituency that anyone would bother to suppress their voting, what with all the blacks and such to suppress?
I don't call liberals "Pretzel People" for nothing! They not only bend over backwards but twist themselves into the unlikeliest of knots in order to justify their whacky positions.
‘”Shame or embarrassment”? I thought that this kind of nonsense was “perfectly natural” so why should they be ashamed?’
Better yet, a matter of “pride”.
Gosh, you think there’s that many? This is series.
We’re going out with nary a wimper, much less a bang.
This same Harris-Perry whatever seems to have had no problem when her friends in the Black Ku Klux Klan (New Black Panthers) were blocking whites from voting in PA in 2008. Never hear any complaints from Liberal Black Racists like this MH-P
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