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Obama’s Bathroom Decree Unburdens Us All From Reality
Townhall.com ^ | May 15, 2016 | Derek Hunter

Posted on 05/15/2016 5:05:05 AM PDT by Kaslin

Hi, I’m Derek Hunter and I’m a straight, white male. I’m 6 feet 5 inches tall, have brown hair and two different color eyes. At least, that’s how I actually am. But thanks to an insane group of pandering, division-loving progressive leftists, I am now free to claim to be, or “identify” in the current socially acceptable parlance, as anything I want.

It’s good to know the president has enough free time to worry about such things as people’s right to use whichever bathroom they want. I was afraid he’d be bogged down with the fight against ISIS or his sputtering, failed economy. Nope.

Since instructing the Justice Department, which also finds itself unburdened by pesky job-related obligations such as investigating Fast and Furious, the IRS being sicced on Americans because of their political beliefs, or the timely conclusion of looking into a former secretary of state treating classified material like junk mail, is finally addressing the civil rights issue of our time.

Since the administration has decreed public schools can’t deny anyone’s “right” to use any facility – bathroom, shower, sports team – simply because of the fact of their biology, lest they risk losing federal funding, gym class is going to be a lot of fun when hormone-raging guys realize they’re one meaningless, un-disprovable, non-binding declaration away from showering with cheerleaders. Oh, to be 16 again.

This is the world Barack Obama and the Democratic Party is constructing for us – the denial of basic biology. Someone more cynical than I might point out the disconnect between those who’ve morphed “climate change” into a religion through the deification of science now denying the undeniable scientific fact that some people have “innies,” while others have “outies.”

Mocking euphemisms aside, females of our species have two “X” chromosomes and males have an “X” and a “Y.” This fact is not in dispute. What it means in terms of which bathroom to use is.

I don’t care how you live your life – if you want to be a productive member of society or a worthless junkie, knock yourself out. Just don’t ask me to subsidize or cheer your choices, and I’ll extend the same courtesy to you. That is no longer permissible in 2016.

The problem isn’t transgendered people using either bathroom; they’ve been around a long time and rarely have been noticed (unless they’ve always been holding it). If you’re a man who lives as a woman and uses the women’s bathroom, you’ve probably never been stopped. There’s no one outside public restrooms with a clipboard and velvet rope frisking you before you enter, and most people don’t pay attention to others going in and out of bathrooms. That’s not the issue. The issue is the people who do pay attention to who goes in and out of bathrooms.

In a nation of 330 million people, there are quite a few sick people out there who don’t simply subscribe to the “live and let live” philosophy. If a pervert gets off on being in the ladies room while women do their business he’d be arrested. If some sicko wants to be around young girls doing whatever women do in there, he would be arrested. What the Justice Department is doing is offering each and every one of them cover now.

Since being transgendered is undefined, all these perverts can simply claim they’re transgender, and suddenly every dad of an 11-year-old girl is a bigot.

In short, the Obama administration is offering cover to any weirdo with a bathroom fetish. And it’s using your tax dollars to enforce it.

There is an upside. If the federal government is going to impose this nebulous standard on schools under the Civil Rights Act, it won’t be able to deny the same rights to prisoners. So if you’re a man facing any sort of federal prison term, declare yourself trans and…well, you can do the math.

There literally would be no justification for gender-segregated prisons if the Civil Rights Act were applied this way. The state can’t justify discrimination anywhere, especially when they’re “fighting” the exact same kind of it elsewhere.

In fact, why stop there? If the federal government is going to negate the fact of biology when it comes to public restroom usage, it can’t use it anywhere. If gender can be ignored, why can’t other biological facts be ignored?

They are, actually.

Remember Rachel Dolezal? The white woman who “identifies” as black? That’s just an accepted part of life now. As is Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren’s lie about being Native American.

Rather than being shunned for their proven lies, Dolezal was rewarded with a book deal; Warren not only got a Senate seat out of the deal, but the media praise her every utterance and urge her to join the Democratic ticket as vice presidential candidate.

And here we are, being ourselves like suckers.

Perhaps we should all claim to “identify” as whatever will best help us at any given moment. Jam the system. If government is going to demand gender is whatever you want it to be at any given time, game on.

Applying for college? Claim every ethnicity and gender, go after every dime of scholarship available to everyone. All you have to do is “identify” as such. Who are they to judge?

A lot of people, myself included, have pets we jokingly refer to as our children. Who’s to say we’re joking? I don’t have kids yet, for all I know the way I feel about my pets is exactly how parents feel about their kids – hello tax deduction! The government can’t tell me I’m wrong; it’s how I feel on the inside.

There is literally no end to the possibilities, and by the standard set by the Obama administration on gender in public schools, no way to disprove any of it. Everyone is free to be anything, which means we’re all everything or nothing.

Thanks to this asinine ruling by this administration, we’re all free to ignore what we are and declare ourselves whatever we want to be, whenever it suits our needs. It’s stupid, it’s crazy, but apparently it’s our civil right. I just don’t know how we missed it for all these years.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: bathroombill; bathroomwars; bathroomwarsbacklash; lgbt; obamabathroomwars; transgender
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1 posted on 05/15/2016 5:05:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

I’m gonna stop going by Robert and go by Roberta so I can apply for aid as a female business owner....with my wife on board - we will be a all-female business - should get extra benefits.....


2 posted on 05/15/2016 5:08:17 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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This needs to go viral.

Sums up this insane ruling perfectly.


3 posted on 05/15/2016 5:08:44 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

it sure does


4 posted on 05/15/2016 5:10:21 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin

This whole bathroom business is not about “the denial of basic biology”. It is political agitation. Period. I doubt Obama came up with this or even Valerie Jarret. No, they had help from demon-spawn somewhere along the way. It is the M.O. of communists to humiliate the populace with absurdity after absurdity. Expect more crap like this.


5 posted on 05/15/2016 5:13:01 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers.)
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To: Kaslin
It’s good to know the president has enough free time to worry about such things as people’s right to use whichever bathroom they want. I was afraid he’d be bogged down with the fight against ISIS or his sputtering, failed economy. Nope.

That's the money quote right there. Poverty increasing, infrastructure crumbling, ISIS growing, and Obama is worried about allowing delusional men dressed as women to share the same bathroom with six year old girls.

6 posted on 05/15/2016 5:14:57 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (See my home page for some of my answers to the left's talking points.)
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To: Kaslin

This should show all that Obama and his ilk are crazy as a June bug.


7 posted on 05/15/2016 5:16:40 AM PDT by stockpirate (Rush is a low information talk show host concerning Ted sCruz and Marco foamboy Rubio.)
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To: Kaslin

——If you’re a man who lives as a woman and uses the women’s bathroom, you’ve probably never been stopped——

There is the essence

Since this began, I have wondered just that about my beer drinking friend the father of two children who one day gave that all up and became a woman. She is now in her late 60’s and a very successful businessman uh woman.


8 posted on 05/15/2016 5:19:17 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: Kaslin

The science of global warming is settled, the science of chromosomes, not so much.


9 posted on 05/15/2016 5:20:59 AM PDT by deadrock (I is someone else.)
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To: Kaslin

Men can claim to be women
Women can claim to be men
And anyone can claim to be whatever race they choose, like Rachel Dolezal the white president of the naaacp and Liz Warren the Harvard Indian maiden commonly knows as Fauxcahontas
So next let’s knock down ageism
All you 40-something’s should self- identify as age 67 and file for social security


10 posted on 05/15/2016 5:21:33 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: stockpirate

Been saying it for years. Always list your race as a minority. We all probably have at least one drop in our blood anyway so let that be your self identifying quality. Of course when we are all takers who is going to produce anything? Voila, Venezuela


11 posted on 05/15/2016 5:21:54 AM PDT by Josa
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To: trebb

Add - ez to your last name and go for it


12 posted on 05/15/2016 5:22:32 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Kaslin

Very sensible and well-written piece, stating what at one time was quite obvious.

Obama’s actions have always provided a insight into the ‘man’ inside his detestable skin: a petty narcissist who ‘identifies’ with being president. The ultimate affirmative-action recipient who considers himself to be the chosen one for all-time, yet is weewee’d-up that genuinely talented successful people achieved their success through ‘luck’.

What a jackass...


13 posted on 05/15/2016 5:25:03 AM PDT by DJ Frisat (Hey, what happened to my clever tag line?!)
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To: Kaslin

Derek, at 6’5”, you’d be a star on a high school women’s basketball team. You may even land a college scholarship. Go for it.


14 posted on 05/15/2016 5:32:32 AM PDT by randita
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To: Kaslin

The issue is much larger than bathrooms, locker rooms and changing rooms.

This is the wedge that will be used to force grade schools and high schools to teach-or more accurately preach-and enforce gender theory to young people while their minds are still malleable.

One of the ramifications of gender theory is that teachers will no longer be permitted to make meaningful distinctions between boys and girls. Indeed they may even be prohibited from using the words.

The issue here isn’t related to freedom, or rights. It’s about government enforced insanity.


15 posted on 05/15/2016 5:36:26 AM PDT by independentmind
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To: silverleaf

A man who fathered 6 children (Bruce Jenner) can never claim to be a woman (Caitlyn Jenner) and needs to be put in an insane asylum along with those agree with him, and the doctors who help him and others with the transitions need to be put out of business and perhaps put in jail.


16 posted on 05/15/2016 5:36:34 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin

So, are any of the following consequences of this self-identification of sex?

XY chromosome people who self-identify as female can play on girls sports teams? (Signaling the merciful end of the WNBA and Title 9?)

Male/Female statistics will become meaningless, since sexuality is “fluid”? (The claim that “women make 77% as much as men is over?)

Men’s and women’s wings/rooms in dormitories are a thing of the past?

Driver’s licenses will no longer list “sex”?

Jails and penitentiaries will become unisex facilities with XY rapists in the same cells as XX embezzlers?


17 posted on 05/15/2016 5:39:17 AM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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To: Kaslin

I hadn’t thought about the pets as children idea. Makes me wonder a little bit if it would work. LOL.


18 posted on 05/15/2016 5:44:23 AM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: Kaslin

Only a few more weeks and we’ll see if CAIT is honored as “ father of the year’


19 posted on 05/15/2016 5:47:07 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Josa
"Been saying it for years. Always list your race as a minority."

Well, if you're white, you are a minority on planet Earth.

20 posted on 05/15/2016 5:54:55 AM PDT by StormEye
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