Posted on 03/15/2016 10:33:39 AM PDT by wagglebee
BOSTON, March 14, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) - A bill that would allow adult biological males to shower or change alongside young girls has earned the endorsement of two prominent teachers unions in Massachusetts.
State legislators are considering a bill that would specifically open all public restrooms, shower facilities, and locker rooms to transgender people.
"An Act Relative to Gender Identity and Non-Discrimination" (H.B. 1577) would add "gender identity" to the state's protected classes able to access all public facilities, such as private changing areas. Lawmakers specifically exempted "lawfully sex-segregated facilities" when it passed a 2011 ordinance granting transgender people protected legal status, but included school restroom facilities.
"The issue with the latest bill is not that it opens up opposite sex restrooms in the schools, because they're already open in the schools at this point in Massachusetts," Sean Ryan, director of communications for the pro-family watchdog group MassResistance, told LifeSiteNews.
"This pending legislation opens the floodgate to adults being able to victimize children in public facilities," Ryan continued. "Erasing the distinction of sex and allowing men to use opposite-sex facilities is a predator's dream."
The Massachusetts Teachers Association - the state affiliate of the National Education Association (NEA) - and the American Federation of Teachers Massachusetts announced that they support H.B. 1577. So have two professional organizations of public school administrators: the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents and the Massachusetts Association of School Committees.
"Groups that should be advocating for children's safety have turned against parents and endorsed a legal concept that by nature puts children at risk," Ryan told LifeSiteNews.
The group has compiled a list of incidents in which men have physically threatened, attempted to rape, or otherwise sexually revealed themselves to women and girls in private facilities.
It's not merely public sector unions fueling the bill with compulsory union dues. Titans of the private sector have also backed the bill.
Business members of Freedom Massachusetts, the key group lobbying for the law, include Facebook, Twitter, Google, the United Way, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the online backup service Carbonite, Planet Fitness, and the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, along with dozens of other firms.
"The transgender lobbying organization 'Freedom Massachusetts' is backed by dozens of insurance companies, law firms, big banks and San Francisco tech companies trying to force their values on all of us," according to the Massachusetts Family Institute, which is also fighting the bill.
But Ryan says the teachers unions' support calls into question the underlying quality of public schools.
"Educational development demands that children are taught facts, not a subjective notion advanced by radical activists that has no basis in reality," Ryan told LifeSiteNews. "Teachers endorsing such phony concepts should make one wonder about the quality of education in general in the Bay State."
And the left simply doesn't care.
Oh they care, just not what you think.
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Every male in Massachusetts school system should start using the female facilities in protest
Somethings just make you want to run outside, pulling your hair out, screaming!!
These lefties won’t be satisfied ever.That’s why the mobs will come with ropes.
What a sick society.
What could possibly go wrong?
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I live in this MOONBAT state.
ugh
Thank god my 17 yr old niece is graduating this spring...
Dang it. I use Carbinite. Anyone know a good alternative?
Would you like to shower with Hillary???? Some women....you just don’t want to shower with.
WTF
Please, I just ate.
Where’s that damn map to Massachusetts, I know it was here yesterday!
Reason to KICK the Teachers Union Out.
Reason to leave the State or never move to the State.
I’m thinking there is going to be a backlash among young women. No one seems to be asking them what they want.
Obviously, only crazy people live in MA.
No kidding. Thank God our siblings moved to Texas, Georgia and Florida while their children were still in school, not only for their children, but for their grandchildren. We’ve had five great nieces and nephews born in the last 6-7 years.
TEACHING
Teaching them to be good little liberals and perverts.
Pushing them toward early sexual relations with either sex.
And away from old fashioned notions like heterosexual unions instead of sexual perversion and sex after marriage instead of teen age sex and two parent families instead of a family with a married mother and father.
Liberalism is the removal of God’s law and replacing it with their perverted vision of utopia.
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