Word: genderism
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...believe marriage is for two people of the opposite or the same gender who wish to express love and commitment to one another and have it recognized by the government as such an expression...
...year, or 1.3% of the country's GDP. In Bangalore, for example, TI documented how half of all expectant mothers must pay on average bribes of $22 for a doctor to attend the birth, while 70% of new mothers give hospital staff $4-$6 just to immediately see the gender of their newborns. (Staff play on fears that they might swap babies...
...senators, House representatives and governors wouldn’t be so bad either. But marketing femininity does not fly in politics. If women are really going to “break through the glass ceiling” (as we like to say) it will not be by playing the gender card. Women should be elected on their political merit—not their chromosomes. I have no doubt that our first female president will be elected in due time, and when she is, she will not have to rely on her sex as a justification for her candidacy...
...think that the biggest problem is the complete, total lack of awareness and an assumption that the number of [transgender] people is so small that it does not affect the campus. There are material problems, such as single-gender rooms and bathrooms. There are also extreme difficulties in changing names in the directory,” said Margaret C.D. Barusch ’06, who is co-chair of BGLTSA...
Scheib says he firmly believes in “tailoring characters to actors,” even if it means not knowing the gender of the lead until auditions are over. So Lorenzo became Kate Walker...