(06-26-2015, 06:44 PM)Zyrusticae Wrote:(06-26-2015, 12:44 PM)hauntmedoitagain Wrote: About time. Now maybe we can start working on trans rights so hopefully I'm actually considered a human being within some period of my limited life span.
p.s. who wants to marry me?
That's the dream, ain't it?
A lot of times it feels like it just ain't happening in this lifetime... but then stuff like this happens. Maybe there's hope after all?
With how fast social change has been coming in the last hundred years, let alone the last -ten- I wouldn't be surprised if something akin to trans acceptance starts gaining more traction in the coming decade. Hell, approval of gays jumped in the near decade since the whole recent debacle started in something that was almost nearly unprecedented. I had honestly thought that back when all this was happened and when Prop 8 was passed that I would never see gay marriage legalized until I was well and into my twilight years. Yet look at how far we've come. It's not perfect and we should never settle until gay marriage is simply known as marriage within the population at large and enjoys full equality across the country, but that sort of sweeping change in public opinion is almost unprecedented at any other time in history. It isn't just the issue of gay marriage either, so many other social issues are having sweeping changes in the court of public opinion to the point where I'm rather interested to see what things will be like in another decade.
I will say though I'm honestly laughing at how so many states are trying to circumvent the ruling. At least two are debating removing the option to issue marriage licenses entirely while the rest are hurrying to pass laws that assure their constituents that -yes- people don't -have- to marry someone who they have religious objections to marrying. Why anyone would want to be married in a religious setting where the person marrying them has an objection to who they are is beyond me. I wouldn't want to ruin that sort of occasion by having, say, the pastor spit fire at me with their gaze throughout the entire ceremony. Though I'm not sure of the legality when it comes to governmental workers who are just issuing the licenses.
