by Jeff Davis

Sometimes I’m sure we all wonder just how low they can go. Just how incredibly silly can Political Correctness get?

Well, let’s try this one for size. USA Today reports “Next year, San Francisco will issue municipal identification cards showing the usual name, birth-date and photo. What the card won’t include: gender. When other cities considered issuing ID cards without regard to legal status, the debate was over illegal immigrants. In San Francisco, where the Board of Supervisors approved such an ID on Tuesday, transgender activists added gender to the discussion. Transgender is a broad term for people who do not identify with their birth sex. Those who refer to themselves as transgender include cross-dressers and transsexuals.”

In other words, being a drag queen who dresses up in women’s clothing is now on its way to becoming a protected classification. No. I am not making this up.

The USA Today article reports “‘The card really makes gender a non-issue,’ says Kristina Wertz, legal director of the Transgender Law Center in San Francisco. Wertz says legally changing a name and gender designation can be time-consuming and cost hundreds of dollars. IDs that don’t match appearance could out people and make them vulnerable to discrimination or abuse, she says.”

Does this silly woman or whatever he/she/it is really believe that with California’s draconian mandatory Political Correctness hanging over everything, there is really anyone left in San Francisco who would dare to discriminate against a drag queen? I honestly think all the normal people fled from ‘Frisco years ago.

The USA Today article notes “Martin Rawlings, 30, is a female-to-male transsexual. When he legally changed his name in 1999, he had trouble getting his employer to change it on his paycheck. His bank, though, had changed his name. As a result, he had trouble depositing his checks. A municipal ID would have helped, he says. ‘It’s often a barrier to finding work, not having an identification that matches your presentation,’ he says.”

Okay, I guess we all need to stop worrying about Iraq and Iran and $100 per barrel oil and massive illegal immigration and crumbling infrastructure and the destruction of the middle class and rampant minority crime, and we must all concentrate on the terrible problems facing transgender people.

The USA Today article continues “Supervisor Tom Ammiano, who introduced the measure, says illegal immigrants will benefit most. They will be able to open bank accounts and use the card for city services such as checking out library books. He expects others, including transgender individuals, to find it useful.”

Illegals can already get pretty much anything they want in San Francisco by way of ID, benefits, free housing and free medical care. It’s a “sanctuary city,” which is another reason why normal people have fled and the place is a basket case. Who has the ability to pay five million dollars for a house or three thousand a month for an apartment, who would want to live in a neighborhood littered with drag queens and illegal aliens?