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I Feel For All My Sisters — Those Who Embrace AFAB and Transgender Ones
We are all women and we all suffer as such
When my first husband and I applied to finance our first car, we were denied. He was in graduate school, working part-time, and I was working as a Special Education teacher. When the banker called to tell us we were denied, I said,
“I’m sure you took my income into account when considering the loan, right? Because legally, you’re required to.”
The Equal Rights Amendment had recently been ratified in Texas, where we lived.
The banker told me he would check and call me back.
He called back within a few minutes and approved the loan. They obviously hadn’t taken my income into account until I reminded them they were legally required to do so.
Ironically, Texas, where I was born, was one of the first states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and enact laws giving women full equal rights. Prior to the ERA, women couldn’t open bank accounts or buy houses or cars without a male partner or parent co-signing.
Fifty years since it was introduced, the ERA still has not been fully ratified by a majority of the states in order to become a Constitutional…