Jules Crittenden on Aidan Quinn, the transgender trolley driver who was texting his/her girlfriend while driving and plowed into the back of the trolley ahead, injuring 50, causing $10 million in damages and who knows how many lawsuits against the MBtA
Never mind the texting, the three speeding tickets and one accident in recent years and the relative youth at 24. Should people who deny fundamental biological facts and claim to be of the opposite gender be entrusted with large public conveyances that carry dozens of commuters? Would it be discriminatory to question their judgment and stability? Should the NTSB be looking at possible medical issues, such as any effect hormone treatments for example might have on behavior, perception and judgment?
He says
I have no problem with blokes dressing like sheilas and vice versa. It’s a free country. I do have a problem with the government officially endorsing delusion, however, and engaging in bizarre exercises in political correctness that create public safety risks.
The sense of entitlement must be massive to believe that the government -- your fellow citizens -- owe you an operation to change your sex. Fostering such a sense of entitlement is a problem in itself.
In Canada, the CRTC can challenge your broadcast license if you don't refer to a post-operation transsexual as a member of the post-op sex on TV or radio.
Posted by: mattbg at May 13, 2009 1:23 PM