Gender-Identity Expression, Discrimination, and the Law

Published: October 6, 2007, 11:54 pm

Tags: feminism gender, politics news, employment discrimination, enda, gender identity

Here's my beef with capitalism: while the system works in theory because businesses want to recruit the most qualified, talented, smartest, and overall best people to work for them, the reality is that capitalism is a system administered by humans. As humans, we tend to let our prejudices, biases, and ignorance guide our decisions, which historically leads to discrimination against people who are different than those in charge. (Of course, this aspect of humanity also poses problems for socialism, democracy, and other wonderfully theorized systems of social organizations.) To overcome our human flaws and truly give everyone a fair chance in life, government often is required to pass laws banning discrimination. This brings me to today's topic, the Employment Non-Descrimination Act (ENDA), which originally was written to ban and provide remedies for "employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity." The key here is that ENDA originally included

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