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To: Republican Wildcat
Ponder for a moment some examples… [of what this] means for schools that receive federal funding. A young man who says his gender identity is female must be offered a college dormitory room with roommates who are women (irrespective of the wishes of those roommates). An athlete who is biologically male in all respects must be allowed to compete for a position on a women’s sports team if he identifies himself as female. A first-grade girl who thinks she’s a boy can use the boys’ bathroom. And, yes, high-school boys who say they’re transgender girls may use the girls’ locker rooms and showers on the same terms, and at the same time, as the girls do — and vice versa, of course, for girls who say they’re transgender boys.
…In other words, it is the advocates of transgender access to bathrooms and showers who, under the guise of their nondiscrimination rhetoric, are in fact seeking to discriminate on the basis of — in favor of — gender identity. That’s exactly what a policy of making gender identity override biological sex entails: It makes gender identity determine which restrooms and showers a person is allowed to use, just as a policy of race-segregated restrooms and showers makes race determine which facilities a person is allowed to use. (I am of course not asserting that racial discrimination and discrimination in favor of gender identity are moral equivalents.)

The unsound proposition that separate facilities assigned by biological sex involves discrimination on the basis of gender identity collapses into incoherence. If a boy who identifies as female has a right under Title IX to use the girls’ restrooms and showers, then it would clearly be discrimination on the basis of gender identity to bar a boy who identifies as male from also using them. After all, the difference between these two biological males is that they have different gender identities. How could one of the males be allowed to use the girls’ facilities and the other be barred from doing so if Title IX bars discrimination on the basis of gender identity? In short, contrary to everyone’s (including the Obama administration’s) understanding of Title IX, the transgender illogic would disallow any system of single-sex facilities to survive.
- Transgender Activism Has Produced a Legal Absurdity


7 posted on 05/23/2016 2:20:41 PM PDT by Heartlander (Prediction: Increasingly, logic will be seen as a covert form of theism. - Denyse O'Leary)
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To: Heartlander

Yeah, I have not seen a single article about transgendered always using the opposite sex’s bathroom that includes that main nugget of information.


27 posted on 05/23/2016 8:23:33 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Heartlander

Exactly - the entire thing is a logical fallacy - brain dead nonsense.

Under their logic, it is entirely possible that the girls sports teams could be made up entirely of boys and the boys teams entirely of girls. A woman can be a father, and so forth. This is literal insanity - but if you point this out, you are a bigot, hateful, etc.


33 posted on 05/24/2016 9:23:58 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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