Being Forgotten

Apparently transgender people don't count in California when it comes to reparative therapy for young people, at least if it's actually gender identity and not sexual orientation of the young person. That's what California just did with Senate Bill 1172, signed into law September 29, 2012.

While all the lesbian and gay people where championing this bill through the legislature and encouraging support from the greater LGBT community, they forgot to include banning reparative therapy for gender identity.

Why is that? Because the gay (men) community were in charge of this bill?

Lesbians gained here too but there is far less effort for therapists to change the sexual orientation of a young girl. But if the young person is transgender, then reparative therapy, long proven the same as homosexual reparative therapy as a bogus, then it's still legal?

It's still legal for parents to try and force their transgender child or youth into therapy for what? Did you not plan to consider inclusion of transgender reparative therapy in the bill all along? Did you really forget transgender people except to cite them in the bill but not include in the ban?

Why is this not just another example of why gay men hate transgender people, especially transgender women?  Because this is another example.

And you wonder why you didn't get their support for this bill when you probably assumed it and expected transgender people to stand up and support it?

I forgot you, gay men, really don't care about any minority rights except your own. And here is shows, obvious and blatant. And maybe the courts will rule it invalid. Transpeole can hope, if only to teach you, gay men, a lesson in humility and inclusion.

Being deliberately forgotten isn't appreciated, again.