Posted on 06/05/2008 8:50:04 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
... On Thursday, Ritter signed Senate Bill 200 which expands "ant-discrimination" law to cover sexual orientation, meaning not only homosexuality or bisexuality, but also "transgender status or another person's perception thereof."
... A major criticism of the bill by conservatives is that it appears to allow men who self-identify as "transgender" a legal right to demand to be able to user women's bathrooms, health club showers, bathhouses, and any other "public accomodation".
Importantly, the bill does not define "transgender".
...In other words, not only is there no legal definition for transgender, but there isn't even a solid dictionary definition for a court to rely on. Instead, transgender status is a matter of self-identification, rendering such a claim to be nearly impossible to prove or disprove.
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
No wonder the Democrats chose this state to hold their convention in.
This place is slowly becoming a paradise for them!
God help us.
I remember 20 years ago people would be laughed at and marginalized when they predicted things like this would happen.
Moral absolutes ping!
No responsible parent should let their children enter any public restroom in Colorado alone (or maybe at all) once this bill goes into effect.
I wonder if we can get Obama to champion this issue at the national level?
Now all a man has to do to gain entry into a place where women are using the bathroom is chop off his genitals!
It's true--this formerly red state is becoming less so every day. Strong conservative senator Wayne Allard is retiring, and there is a strong conservative (Bob Schaffer) and a major liberal (Mo Udall) competing for the seat. Fellow Colorado FReepers, please support Bob Schaffer!
Each time something like this happens, (the CA Supreme Court same-sex marriage decision, for example)the “sleeping giant” of decent people or “silent majority”, call it what you will, gets closer to rising up and shouting, “enough is enough”. It’s just a matter of time.
At that point, the conservative revolution in this country will begin. I just hope that it isn’t a violent one.
The inmates are now running the asylum in CO.Is there a *single* perversion that the RAT Party of today *doesn’t* support?
Sad this is not the Colorado of a few years ago, the tech boom in Denver has doomed this state with all the Kalifornia trash immigrating in.
I prefer to consider myself an albino transgendered African American lesbian.
No.
The bill allows men who feel that they are women (have the mind of a woman) to use women’s restrooms.
Men who feel that they should have been classified as women when they were younger can use women’s restrooms.
Do you approve of SB 200?
Well, I’ll be scratching Colorado off my list of places I want to visit.
Phyllis Schlafly was laughed at when she called the feminists on their “Equal Rights Amendment” allowing this.
The feminists indeed included the women who wanted to be men crowd and now they get their way through simple legislation instead.
On the street, in corporate board rooms. etc. the talk is about “LGBT” as in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered.
A “Brave New World.”
Great....so any cross-dresser, wig wearing, estrogen enriched male can waddle into women’s rooms and cavort
with the XX chromosomed? Isn’t govt. protections via ethically challenged Dems wonderful? Pox on all these scum politicians partnering with the keepers of these cesspool bohemias for the damned.
oh right, i was confusing “transgender” and “transsexual”. I don’t live in Colorado, so I don’t have to have any opinion on this... yet. Having a hard time picturing this coming onto the agenda in Tennessee anytime soon though.
I voted for Bob Beauprez.
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