My take is: I support equality for transgender people. I think transgender people and anyone who cares about transgender equality should work to pass laws to protect transgender people and give them equal rights. I also think politics is politics. I think if Barney can get an LGB bill through Congress, he should do it, and we should let him. If Barney and whoever else can then get a T bill through Congress, they should do that, too. Nixing an LGB job-protection bill, which would directly affect in the neighborhood of 30 million Americans, because we can't simultaneously protect an unknown, vastly smaller number of T Americans doesn't seem reasonable. In a perfect world, of course we'd include the T folks. But we don't live in a perfect world. We're trying to make it more perfect. But that takes time, it takes process, and it means grabbing opportunities when they are available....
I'm also not convinced that homosexuality and transsexuality are the same thing, and I really don't think there is such a thing as "the LGBT community." Gay men and lesbians are the same thing (homosexuals) -- and bisexuals, when they're not exercising their heterosexual option, are then exercising their gay or lesbian option. Many transsexuals I've known have had surgery and then partnered with someone of the opposite sex, at which point they are, I'd imagine, heterosexual.
