Yeah! New Hampshire gives gays and lesbians a chance to marry, while shoving it up the asses of their trans population. Let's celebrate!

I am pleased to see that civil marriage equality has once again emerged victorious, the latest example being New Hampshire. New England has become the leader of the nation in this issue, as it was when slavery was still legal and the New England abolitionists were active.

The problem is that this comes on the heels of having the inclusion of gender identity and expression in New Hampshire's nondiscrimination law voted down by a margin of 24 to nothing. I fear that, given past history regarding the LGB(t) community, gender variant people in New Hampshire, along with those other states that have passed same sex marriage equality before passing inclusive nondiscrimination law, will never get equal protection until such time that the Federal government passes some version of the Employment Non Discrimination Act. Of course, that is unless gender identity and expression are once again removed for "political " reasons.

New Hampshire joins Massachusetts and Connecticut as states that allows same sex couples to marry while still allowing harmful discrimination against gender variant citizens by not having inclusive nondiscrimination law. New York State may be close behind in joining this less than stellar category. I am losing hope that I will see equal protections for gender variant people within my lifetime. Will it happen? When?

I just received an E-mail for Joe Solmonese congratulating the NH gays of winning same-sex marriage. One of the paragraphs, he says, "Of course, New Hampshire is not the end of our fight for marriage equality. We'll continue our work to expand equality in states like New York, where a vote on marriage equality could come within a few weeks. We're also working to protect our recent victory in Maine against a Prop. 8-style campaign and to win back marriage in California."

There is nothing in this about working for other forms of "equality." Nothing in there that could have said, Even as we celebrate the equality in marriage, we are sadden to see that New Hampshire rejected employment equality for transgender people. They need to revisit this important issue so all LGBT people in their state will be equal."

He said nothing of that. As Becky implied, this is nothing more then a bunch of rich, white gay men patting themselves on their backs, while pissing on transgender people yet again. Ask us if we're surprised at HRC's callous response.