Town Hall Meeting and the Poll Results

Once again it was a busy week with very little time to work on the Blog. On Wednesday night I went to the Town Hall meeting the results of the poll that the NGLTF had on done on discrimination based on gender and gender expression were shown. The results were very interesting. 79% of those polled were in favor of adding gender and gender expression to the existing anti-discrimination laws and the poll was taken by a firm that normally does the Republican polls. The questions were framed in the worst possible way to avoid claims of bias but it still came out very positive for us.
Some of the questions that they asked were; “Do you think a person should be fired if a man showed up for work in a dress or a woman dressed as a man?” and “Do you think a teacher should not be fired if a male teacher showed up at school in a dress or a woman teacher dressed as a man even though harm may come to the children?” over 50% said that they should not be fired. Interestingly enough the question about work when asked why, the majority of the respondents said if they could fire someone for that then they could fire me for some other reason and where do you draw the line.
Lastly they asked; “If you congressperson vote for gender and gender expression to be added to the anti-discrimination legislation would you still vote for him?” And 72% (Including those that did not want gender and gender expression in the law.) said yes!