Another WTF.

I'm watching an HBO Documentary (yay for My DVR!) called "100% Woman," about a transgendered woman (possibly transsexual? I think she's on hormone treatments, at any rate) who is a professional mountain biker. All of her competitors are trying to get her disqualified because she's not, as they say, "a real woman."

Here I was thinking they just didn't want someone with the unfair advantage of a male muscle-to-fat ratio competeing against them, or something biological like that... but no, it's that "she might go to the championships and THEN what would people think about women's mountain biking???"

Yes, that's a huge concern. One transgendered woman might ruin mountain biking for everyone! Clearly that means all female mountain bikers are actually men.

It's almost funny how people don't realize that GLBT rights are the younger generation's civil rights movement. GLBT struggles are not synonymous with the racial struggles this country (and the world) have faced because the histories just aren't the same, but there's something to be said for the fact that strides have been made in the past 40-50 years towards racial equality-- although we're still light-years away from that being anything near "equal"-- and now we're doing something similar to GLBT people. What? It just BAFFLES me. This is going to be one more embarassing era in US history that could have been SO SIGNIFICANTLY SHORTENED if we just pushed through the paperwork already, made gay marriage legal ("marriage", in my mind, shouldn't be a government concern at all) and started pushing through this to actual social, political, and cultural equality for everyone.

GLBT rights is my voting issue this election. What's yours?