The Birmingham News ran an op-ed Sunday about Alabama's hate crimes law. The article was critical of Alabama for not having yet adding homosexuals and transgender people to the list of groups to be protected against hate violence.
I can see adding protections for homosexuals, since I can see how homosexuality is biologically based. I'm not so sure about transgender people.
"Transgender" usually refers to individuals who are born "male" or "female" but who do not believe that classification really fits them. As Wikipedia puts it, transgender people are those "who were assigned a sex, usually at birth and based on their genitals, but who feel that this is a false or incomplete description of themselves."
As we have learned through experiences with homosexuals and bisexuals, gender and sexual orientation are two separate issues. I find it difficult to afford enhanced protections for a group based upon their perceived sense of their own gender.
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