MONDAY, MAY 4 This week of diabolical taintings, criminally “cool” principals, and the return of America’s best rock band kicked off in the pages of the New York Times, as today the Times‘ editorial board came out swinging in support of transgender rights. “A generation ago, transgender Americans were widely regarded as deviants, unfit for dignified workplaces, a disgrace for families,” wrote the board in a full-page editorial. “Coming out meant going through life as a pariah.” Noting the heartbreakingly high rates of homelessness, joblessness, and suicide among transgender people, even as network television earns blockbuster ratings with interviews of transgender celebrities, the Times declared: “Being transgender today remains unreasonably and unnecessarily hard. But it is far from hopeless… The tide is shifting, but far too slowly, while lives, careers, and dreams hang in the balance. This generation should be the one that stopped thinking that being transgender is something to fear or shun.” To quote God, “Fuck yeah”…
