The disorientation of the United States of America continues. With defiant disregard for logic, morality –– oh and God –– a directive was issued May 13, 2016 jointly by the Departments of Education and Justice requiring Public Schools across America to allow transgender students to use bathrooms consistent with their gender identity (expression) rather than a bathroom that matches their birth gender (their physical equipment). The directive included guidelines, which will ensure “transgender students enjoy a supportive and non-discriminatory school environment.”
According to this directive, “A school may not require transgender students to use facilities inconsistent with their gender identity or to use individual-user facilities when other students are not required to do so.”
Senior officials at the Departments of Justice and Education have indicated this new directive has been issued in response to the growing concerns raised by educators, faculty, school board officials, parents and students across the country, in addition to the National Association of Secondary School Principals in their desire to clarify the legal and civil obligations and “best practices” in the treatment of transgender students.
The US Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, chimed in, stating, “There is no room in our schools for discrimination of any kind, including discrimination against transgender students on the basis of their sex. … This guidance gives Administrators, teachers and parents the tools they need to protect transgender students from peer harassment and to identify and address unjust school policies.”
The Obama Administration, through its Department of Justice and Education, has made it clear that under its interpretation of Title IX and related privacy rights and sex-segregated athletics, it has every legal ground to execute this new directive.
In addition, the most recent federal lawsuits filed by the state of North Carolina and the Federal Government have brought the transgender debate to full exposure. At issue is North Carolina’s HB2, which in simple terms, requires transgender people to use public restrooms that correspond to their sex at birth. The Attorney General once again added her opinion to this debate stating that HB2 is like unto Jim Crow laws. She assures transgender Americans, “We will do everything we can to protect you.”
Of late, the Administration has aggressively supported and overtly protected the rights of gay or as called same-sex marriage as well as allowing LGBT to serve openly in the military. In addition to prohibiting federal contractors from discriminating against LGBT, the Obama Administration is forging ahead unabated, to protect and promote the transgender class, availing them access to bathrooms of their choice in public institutions. The ultimate goal of the Administration is to provide all transgender people access to the bathroom of their gender identity in all venues, public and private.
It is understood, this recent directive does not carry the weight of law. Still it is a clear message that public educational institutions need to comply or face the loss of Federal Funds. Street talk, you would call this action blackmail, perhaps extortion, certainly intimidation.
To understand the street level translation of this directive, the Administration is accommodating the following scenario. Johnny, born as a beautiful bouncy baby boy, with male equipment, chooses to become a female. Johnny, now Josie has the protected right to go into the girl’s bathroom or girl’s locker room or shower – before his sex-change operation. Johnny then is to be able to do so with impunity and public school districts are supposed to applaud and support this abnormality, regardless of the rights, privileges, dignity, modesty and decorum of real girls, faithful to the birth gender. That example may be a giddy simple playground illustration, but the reality is raw, ugly, painful and deviant.
Transgender protection is a trend in full force. Its promotion will instigate heated controversy, further instigating discord and vitriol among the States, government officials, school districts, staff members, students, parents, friends, churches and the American public at large.
This whimsically called “bathroom law” will soon become the law of the land, and you had better get used to it. Soon you will no longer be able to laugh at, ridicule, parody or berate transgender behavior.
With transgender conversation incorporating language, which includes talk of Jim Crow laws, concomitant with civil rights, you can rest assured, as the direction of this country is going, LGBT will be given full protection under constitutional law and a ratified civil rights bill.
The transgender movement is gaining momentum not only in America but also across the world. It seems gender assignment (one’s sex at birth) is of less significance than one’s gender identity (one’s gender expression or what he or she feels he or she wants to be).
Conservative estimates indicate there are currently some 700,000 American transgender people. This number does not accurately reflect the thousands of youth persuaded to pursue gender adjustment. Children as young as 4, 5 and 6 along with a significant number of tweens, are encouraged to pursue the gender they feel they are and not the gender they really are. Transgender arguments, social and scientific studies, television programs and social media all reinforce self-expression, promoting gender self-determination.
It is not just the Obama Administration promoting the transgender cause. More elected officials are embracing the rights of transgender people and the LGBT community. In addition, more Americans are accepting transgender issues and opposing discrimination and hatred toward LGBT.
With regard to “bathroom legislation,” Americans aged 18 to 29 favor letting transgender people use the restroom of their identity by a 2-to-1 ratio. According to a recent Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll, young adults and women are more open to people using public bathrooms matching their gender identity. Forty-four percent of women are in favor of letting a man who is in transition from male to female (a.k.a. transwoman) into women’s public bathrooms.
Overall, the public is fairly split on the subject, with 43 percent saying they are in favor of the view that people should use public restrooms “according to the biological sex on their birth certificate” compared to 41 percent who support that transgenders should be able to use a public restroom “according to the gender with which they identify.”
“Gender identity is a pretty new term for a lot of people so having effectively an even split on the bathroom question is a very good result,” said Paisley Currah, an author on transgender issues and a political science professor at Brooklyn College. “I was pleasantly surprised. “The gay rights movement in the last few years moved very quickly and I feel like the transgender movement is moving at even greater speed.”
Yes it is. Now both Houses of the US Congress are ramping up efforts to promote and protect the rights of transgenders and the entirety of the LGBT segment of American society. New legislation is now in committee, progressing toward an eventual vote and with every certainty, passage into law.
H.R 3185 and S. 1858 is a singular Bill introduced –– “be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled” which “prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation and for other purposes.” The short title of this Bill is the “Equality Act.”
This Equality Act, known also as the Equality Act of 2015 is a Bill that once passed into law will also amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include protections that ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex in the areas of employment, housing, public accommodations, public education, federal funding, credit, and the jury system.
Among the language within this Bill; “Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (referred to as LGBT) people commonly experience discrimination in securing access to public accommodations – including restaurants, stores, places or establishments that provide entertainment and transportation. … This discrimination prevents the full participation of LGBT people in society and disrupts the free flow of commerce.” “Workers who are LGBT, or who are perceived to be LGBT have been subjected to a history and pattern of persistent, widespread and pervasive discrimination on the bases of sexual orientation and gender identity ….”
The “bathroom controversy” is just one small piece of the grand puzzle being put together which will reveal a picture of a disoriented and dismantled America. Supreme Court rulings on same sex marriage and continued legislation the likes of the soon coming Equality Act are made possible because people trust in the documents and laws of men rather than on the holy and righteous laws of God.
What a promising concept –– that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. What misery these words avail when God is removed from the picture.
All men (and women) are created equal in the eyes of the Creator, free to pursue life, liberty and happiness, as our founding fathers so perceived. And now the 21st century expands that concept to include all men who want to be women and all women who want to be men. Of course let us not forget the children – they have rights too!
Even though God is not considered relevant in the discussion, perhaps the United States Congress and the White House, oh and not to forget, the American people should consider a simple warning from God as they pursue this transgender line of folly and social confusion.
“Because their words and their deeds are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of His glory; the look on their faces testifies against them: and they parade their sins like Sodom. They do not hide it. Woe unto them. They have brought disaster upon themselves” (Isaiah 3:8-9 NIV).
Don’t think for a moment that allowing transgender people unimpeded access to the bathroom of their gender identity choice will bring peace, harmony, liberty and happiness across this land. Au contraire! Greater disorientation is guaranteed with assured ideological if not outright physical confrontations to follow and God need not lift a finger. He has already put living laws and the natural laws of gender binary orderliness into practice. Any disconformity to or violation of God’s laws will automatically produce ruinous and fatal consequences. That is what the future brings for the United States of America.
