If they pass the anti gay laws, would you crossdress to work?

[nikki_t]

The federal government actually has no business (under the constitution) in passing such laws just as it has no business (under the constitution) trying to define what marriage is or just as it has no business (under the constitution) sticking its nose in abortion issues or just as it has no business (under the constitution) telling people or the press what they can or cannot say - yet Democrats and Republicans keep trying because they all want to control our lives and find the constitution to be inconvenient.

These matters are supposed to be defined by state laws and all the states are supposed to be loosely tied together by a weak federal government with a weak federal president. The US is a representative republic for a reason. Yet we all seem to forget this and expect the federal government to cure all our ills for us and, therefore, allow the federal government to grow and control us (the exact same thing is happening in Europe with the European Union).

The benefit of this system is supposed to be that the entire nation cannot be controlled by a single tyrant. The framers of the constitution figured they'd been there, done that and bought the T-shirt and specifically limited the power of the federal government in the constitution. If you don't like the laws and/or taxes of one state you can always move and benefit from the laws and/or taxes of another state. The concept is that states will compete for taxpayer's business. For example, I believe Vermont is supposed to have some pretty damned good TG protection laws.

There is already a federal law that protects what you can wear. It's called the constitution and it's the law-of-the-land. It's society that needs to change its views on TG issues - no piece of paper will do that.

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BTW, the US is known as the land of the free because it gained independence from a tyrannical King. Not because the people have more freedoms than other nations. In fact, the US Bill of Rights is a rehash of the English 1689 Bill of Rights.