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State Rep Kathi-Ann Reinstein of MA (where I reside) has introduced a bill which contains in part:

Whoever, either with knowledge that a person is a child under eighteen years of age, an elder or a person with a disability, or while in possession of such facts that he should have reason to know that such person is a child under eighteen years of ( Read more... )

thanks, my gender clinic. i *know* i'm sooooo lucky to have you approve my hormone regimen. because we aaaalllll knoooow you would *never* gatekeep based on disability. the 'proof' is that you prescribe hormones to people with AIDS and mental health issues ( Read more... )

Being HoH or deaf, does not mean that you're stupid, thank you.

Please to be forgetting that stereotype.

To Whom It May Concern:

Do not invite me somewhere awesome and then arrive to pick me up in a vehicle I am completely unable to get in to because it's freaking three feet off the ground. You suck.

Thank you,

The Management

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First post here. Hope my venting is sufficiently exasperated.

Oh there's always drama on the public transit. Always. Something absolutely absurd always happens. Usually I'm just a spectator. Today I, apparently, was the absolutely absurd occurrence ( Read more... )

We live in a small apartment block. There is a gate across the car park that gets closed at night, so we have to take a small side gate to get in ( Read more... )

TAMPA, Fla. - Four Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies have been suspended after purposely tipping a quadriplegic man out of his wheelchair at a jail, authorities said Tuesday. Link

I'm sick of assholes who think that it is ok & acceptable behavior to do whatever the hell they want to someone who is disabled. That people just let these things ( Read more... )

Man, I have a lot of rants lately. It must be the time for it ( Read more... )