What about the "T"? - New York State is poised tomorrow to pass a sweeping gay rights bill prohibiting discrimination in housing, credit and public accomodations. It's landmark legislation which will help bring basic civil rights protections to another 19 million Americans, but there's just one tiny hold up. While the bill looks like it could make it through the state Senate for the first time in 31 years, its own sponsors are questioning whether it must first be amended to include the transgendered, according to a story in today's NYTimes.

Now call me an unreconstructed Southern dullard, but when you live in a state that still punishes sodomy as a felony, this seems like a small problem to contend with.