“In a depressing reminder of the times in which we live and how far we still have to go to reach equality for everyone in the LGBT community, a Twin Falls, Idaho, transgender woman was presented as male in an open-casket funeral service this week.
Jennifer Gable, 32, reportedly died suddenly of a brain aneurysm while working at Wells Fargo Bank on Oct. 9. At her funeral, Gable, who legally changed her name in 2007, was reportedly not referred to as Jennifer once.
Additionally, the late Gable’s family cut her hair short and presented her wearing a suit and her obituary reportedly skipped the decade of her life she spent transitioning to live authentically as Jennifer.”
Read more from Huffington Post here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/24/jennifer-gable-transgender_n_6212900.html
Misty Kingma (http://twitter.com/mistykingma), Jimmy Dore (http://www.twitter.com/jimmy_dore) and Ben Mankiewicz (http://www.twitter.com/benmank77) of The Young Turks discuss. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
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I’d dress MY child however I like, screw you all !
spoken from the perspective of a grieving parent
Your child does not equal your property.
Have you ever lost a child ? I really don’t think i’d give 3 fks about anyones opinions, i’d be doing what lessened the pain for my wife and that’s the only consideration anyone would get.
Your only consideration should be your child looking at you from above and her last will. It’s equal to burying a devoted Christian in a Muslim way. It’s really distgusting and insulting.
throw a wake. she doesn’t care she’s dead.
I hate to keep repeating this little bit of knowledge, but YOU CAN’T MAKE PEOPLE LOVE YOU JUST FOR WHO YOU ARE. It’s a sad fact of life that we all have to get used to, even in death.