Posted on 01/21/2015 3:11:52 PM PST by Impala64ssa
West Hollywood is the first city in California to adopt a policy of “gender neutral” public restrooms, giving businesses 60 days to change the little male and female stick figure signs on bathroom doors.
As the Los Angeles Times reports, businesses must comply with a new city law prohibiting gender identifications.
“City leaders said that the old school “men” and “women” restrooms were outdated and puts transgender people in the difficult position of having to “out” themselves simply by picking a door.”
“I know for a number of transgender people that having to choose whether to go into the male or female restroom is not as easy as it can be for non-transgender people,” said West Hollywood Councilwoman Abbe Land, who introduced the motion, which passed unanimously last year. “It’s all about access and equality.”
“Land said her council office is working to inform other cities about the law in the hope they will adopt it, but she expected it would face longer odds in areas with smaller, less visible LGBT populations.”
Well, frankly I’m not sure how LGBT populations can get less visible.
According to a study by the leading LGBT demographer at the University of California Los Angeles School of Law’s Williams Institute, only 0.3 percent of U.S. adults are actually transgender. How can you get less visible than that? Zero percent?
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The queers and the child molesters have to be loving this.
This is satire, right? Please tell me it’s satire.
Nope, but think what a boon this will be to rapists.
Actually no. In the 14th century “gender” started being applied to grammar (masculine/feminine/neuter), in the 15th folks started getting sloppy and confounding masculine with male and feminine with female. The word has since been completely corrupted by people who want to pretend that maleness and femaleness are as arbitrary and malleable as grammatical categories, and should be avoided when what is meant is sex.
Exactly. One of my pet peeves.
The ridiculous term “transgender” is of recent vintage, another way the left has twisted the languare. The correct term is “transvestite”.
languare = language
I know it's off topic, but his is why Valerie Jarret's idea of granting public employees paid leave is so ominous. Ultimately they will impose it on private business as well ... and the oligarchs that run the large corporations will be fine with that ... because it will slow down their future competitors more than them.
This will be another hidden tax imposed on small business.
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