Pride duck

Denied! DENIED!

In January 2011, Baystate Hospital's lawyer filed a Motion to Dismiss on the grounds that I hadn't filed my complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination within the 300 day statute of limitations.

According to the hospital, the clock started ticking on January 21, when they dated the letter they sent me saying they wouldn't treat me.

According to legal practice, three days are allowed for mailing.  They have no proof they mailed the letter on that day.  They didn't register it.

They then continued to talk to a lawyer who was trying to help, and assured her the decision was not final. They sent another letter.  I left a voicemail the day I got the letter stating I had just received it.

I sent an e-mail to several lawyers telling them about the letter.

According to my calculations, I filed on day 299 of receiving the letter, however, I am trying to claim that the statute of limitations clock started ticking much, much later, more like June.

The Commission agreed with me.  Their motion to dismiss was denied, so the case will proceed.  And now I know that the Commission hasn't totally forgotten about me.

So now, I keep on waiting.  I won the first battle.  The war proceeds.

WWED?

Transgender vs. Transgendered

Discuss, please.

I use transgendered. Adjective. I am transgendered. I am a transgendered person.

I really don't like "he is a transgender" and I don't think most of us trans* people use it.

But what about transgender. Adjective. I am transgender. I am a transgender person.


Actually, really, I tend to use transmasuline more than transgender(ed).

Is my resistance to transgender just because I transitioned so long ago?

I have been describing myself as transgendered since December of 1998. I changed my name in June 1999, and started hormones in October 1999, I had chest surgery in summer 2001. I went off testosterone in the summer of 2004. Though I was stealth at work and outside of my immediate circle from 2000 through 2005, though I started disclosing and taking on trans activisty stuff in university around 2001/2002 when I started at Guelph. Since 2005, I would say that I have been out in almost all aspects of my life, though there are people who don't know, either because they just don't, or because I've kept it from them.

Is this a case of me being a curmudgeon? And would somebody please get those kids off my lawn? ::grin::

Or should I be making the switch to transgender people instead of transgendered people? What do you say, personally, and why?

(Do us a favour and make sure to position yourself as a trans person/soffa/ally/etc. as these apply.)