Monday, August 20, 2007

Discrimination is Still with Us

A friend who is going to college to get her degree Masters in Psychology is have a hard time with a progressive liberal arts college located in rural Vermont. Last spring she went to her first semester there and got all “A” and not only that but her term paper that she wrote was passed along to the APA Division 44 Task Force (The group on GLB diversity, there is no “T” and that was what her paper was about, adding the “T” to the GLB). She is now going back to the college but the college will not give her her class assignments even though she has paid her tuition.
You see she is not transgendered but she has MS and the college does not want her to come back to college. They are trying every thing they can think up to keep her out including asking her doctor to fill out a seven page questionnaire about her health which is a violation of ADA and HIPPA laws.
I first met her by email, she said that she was a student going to a local college for her bachelor and she was majoring in Psychology specializing in Gender Identity problems. She asked if she could help out at our Banquet and attend a meeting. While she was helping out at our Banquet at the table out in front of the banquet room checking off attendees a man came up to her and started cursing and asking why she help those faggots and perverts. He then swept his hand across the table knocking everything off. That was her initiation into our world.
Since then she has given a picnic and a Christmas party at her house for our support group. For this now to happen to her, it just sucks!

3 comments:

  1. Seems like this is something the National MS Society might like to know about and could possibly provide some assistance on: http://www.nationalmssociety.org/

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  2. She has along with other state and federal agencies.

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  3. This is awful!

    Some people are so caught up in their own invented system of right and wrong, that they loose all compassion. Ugh!

    If only they were able to understand... but they won't even listen...

    Compliments to your friend.

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