As we did in the 80's.
Posted on 02/11/2016 12:17:00 PM PST by wagglebee
SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota, February 10, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Recent comments from a group of Republican South Dakota legislators on proposed legislation in the state have caused controversy among the transgender movement.
In a discussion on a bill that would limit bathroom and shower facility use in South Dakota schools to students sharing the same gender, State Senator David Omdahl referred to individuals suffering from gender dysphoria as "twisted" due to their identity confusion and said they would benefit from psychological treatment.
"I'm sorry if you're so twisted you don't even know who you are," said Omdahl, explaining the intent behind HB 1008 at a legislative coffee this past Saturday.
Omdahl first praised the bill, stressing that it was about protecting the state's children, before indicating that gender dysphoria would be better served by psychological treatment.
"They're treating the wrong part of the anatomy. They ought to be treating it up here," he said, pointing to his head in a video posted by the Argus Leader. "And so my feeling is, let's protect the children. Let's get this bill passed, to save our kids."
Omdahl's remarks, along with those of other legislators at the event who support the proposed bill, were not well-received by transgender advocates and individuals.
"People who are transgender are not twisted. We are people just like everyone else," University of South Dakota assistant professor in clinical psychology Jae Puckett said in a report from KSFY-ABC. "Bills like this, if it gets passed or not, has a detrimental effect on people. If it does get passed, it's a form of basically legalized discrimination."
"REALLY SD? Really?" was the response from PlanetTransgender.com, which used an expletive to tag its article.
The Peacock Panache website stated that "the South Dakota GOP wants to unduly burden transgender students based solely on their gender identity. And the coffee event demonstrated the hate-filled animus and fear behind the legislation."
TheNewCivilRightsMovement.com referred to Omdahl's comment on transgender identity confusion as "malignant" and said of Omdahl and his fellow lawmakers who back the bill, "Their ignorance runs counter to basic human rights."
While the American Psychiatric Association (APA) changed the name of the psychological disorder affecting transgender individuals from "gender identity disorder" to "gender dysphoria" in 2012, the condition remains classified as a mental disorder by the APA.
The following year, a prominent Toronto psychiatrist issued a statement saying that from a medical and scientific perspective, there is no such thing as a "transgender person."
Doctor Joseph Berger said regarding legislation proposed in Canada at the time that terms such as "gender expression" and "gender identity" are at best ambiguous and are more an emotional appeal than a statement of scientific fact.
Doctor Berger stated as well there seemed "to be no medical or scientific reason to grant any special rights or considerations to people who are unhappy with the sex they were born into, or to people who wish to dress in the clothes of the opposite sex."
South Dakota's HB 1008 would designate use of restrooms, locker rooms, and shower rooms in the state's schools to students of the same biological gender.
For the purpose of the bill, biological gender, or "biological sex," denotes "the physical condition of being male or female as determined by a person's chromosomes and anatomy as identified at birth."
The proposed bill provides for reasonable accommodation for transgender students such as a single-occupancy restroom; a unisex restroom; or the controlled use of a restroom, locker room, or shower room.
Another South Dakota lawmaker, Representative Steven Haugaard, told those present at the February 6 legislative coffee that the topic was sensitive "only because it was pushed into the category of political correctness."
The legislator said that decades of law practice, service on a county mental health board, and legal representation of transgender and homosexual individuals had shown him the personal struggles among individuals identifying as transgender, but conceding on demands such as shared bathroom facilities would be counterproductive.
"And seeing the angst that exists in their lives, for us to perpetuate confusion in the lives of anyone is a disservice to them," Haugaard stated.
"I can tell you that the suicide rate is dramatically higher," he said. "And it's because of the internal confusion and angst that exists."
"And by having the school districts or the state put their stamp of approval on this [allowing students access to facilities for the opposite sex] as though it's a reasonable alternative to your natural creation, it's a poor choice by the state to do that. And I think it facilitates increased problems among that segment of the population."
Representative Jim Stalzer also spoke in favor of HB 1008 at the legislative discussion, rejecting the idea the law was an attempt to supersede federal anti-discrimination law, which he said specifically excludes restrooms, locker rooms, and showers.
"So I do not think we are flouting federal law," Stalzer stated. "I think we are protecting the young women in our South Dakota high schools."
Stalzer went on to say it is already a crime for a male to expose himself in front of females, and thus anyone with male anatomy entering a female restroom would be in violation of that law.
Representative Mark Willadsen reiterated the proposed legislation's intention.
"To me this bill was pretty simple," Willadsen said. "Basically, it says, if you're a boy, you go in the boys' room; if you're girl, you go in the girls' room. If you're one of the unfortunate people that don't really know, then you go to a separate bathroom."
The bill passed the South Dakota House January 27 in a 58-10 vote and is scheduled for a hearing by the Senate Education Committee on February 11.
It's time that more people stand up like this and tell the truth!
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It’s not gender, it’s sex. Gender is about Spanish nouns.
Up is down and common sense has died...let them rant.
People on our side stayed silent when the civil union debate came up, they stayed silent when the homo sham marriage came up , hell some on here told us it was not a big deal.
You bet people had better speak up
which is why I refuse to use their words.
They are homosexuals, it is sex not gender, they are illegal not undocumented etc.
you know people with leg and arm body dysmophia have to go to South America to get the limb removed.
Why is genital dysmorphia ok here and not limb dysmorphia?
One prison doctor said dysmorphia can’t be cured so they MUST have their privates removed.
well, which is it? can it be cured or no?
and if no, dont discriminate against those who wants their legs an arms removed.
I know, it’s an asinine suggestion for an asinine situation.
I nominate this guy for Trump’s running mate.
Truth and mini-truth !
I agree and I am not surprised that twisted people do not like being called twisted. The truth hurts.
Excellent!
Rut roh. He spoke something that made sense. It won’t go well with him. He’ll be walking it back within a few days.
Their cowardly, indulgent parents are also threatened by facts.
How many of those protesting common sense policy, actually live in South Dakota? It is certainly not the business of anyone in another State. The Founders did not create a consolidated monolith; only a framework for cooperation on common problems.
A transgender’s “right” to swing its fist no longer is curtailed at the beginning of your nose.
How can someone have a “right” to violate someone else’s rights?
Why do they consider the status of the human body (physical reality)/nature to be the lie and the status of their mind (changeable, subject to mental defect and delusion) to be the truth?
If I think I’m black and I’m lily white, then I’m white (and nuts). If I think I’m Jesus or Napoleon, then I’m nuts.
But if I have a swinging cod between my legs and I think I’m a woman, I’m not nuts.
Freak-show logic, in a nutshell.
Also, the idea that their human body being the wrong gender is a mistake is poor logic. The brain is also another organ, like their genitalia. If they can consider that their body is a mistake, why can they not consider that their brain is also a mistake?
I would posit that extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
In times of madness, common sense becomes a revolutionary act.
I guess the truth hurts.
No they didn't. They just weren't allowed to get their non-approved opinions on the National airwaves because Liberal Fascists control virtually all mass communications systems.
Give conservatives access to the Microphones and Television cameras and in 10 years this could be flipped back the other way.
There ought to be a law banning liberals from working in Media industries. They always misuse their positions to push their worldview.
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