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by throwaway684936 1537 days ago
Are you actually serious?

We are obviously not talking about being born into wealth. Middle-class people still need to accumulate capital first, generally by working, something that's not always possible (for an extreme example, take e.g. ~90% unemployment rate for autistic college grads).

Even if we were talking about wealthy families, that doesn't count out being disowned, etc. for being gay or transgender.

In any case, check out these links: https://theconversation.com/transgender-americans-are-more-l...

https://nwlc.org/income-security-is-elusive-for-many-transge...

https://www.lgbtmap.org/unfair-price-transgender

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Transgender people are a tiny percentage of LGBT people, so using them to characterize all LGBT is intentionally misleading.

Also, this law was actually about requiring that any non-white or LGBT person be on the board; the LGBT part being highlighted is part of Newsweek's anti-gay agenda.