Posted on 03/08/2017 6:13:37 AM PST by bgill
After nearly a full day of testimony from hundreds of witnesses -- most in opposition -- the controversial "bathroom bill" cleared its first legislative hurdle early Wednesday morning, when the Committee on State Affairs voted 7-1 to recommend the bill to the full chamber.
A high priority of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick's, Senate Bill 6 would require transgender people to use bathrooms in public schools and colleges and government buildings that correspond to their "biological sex" as listed on their birth certificate. It also would prohibit local jurisdictions, like cities and counties, from adopting anti-discrimination ordinances permitting transgender people from using public bathrooms that match their gender identity.
(Excerpt) Read more at mysanantonio.com ...
Indeed. In the closing days of the Obama administration, it’s hard to believe the left had actually pushed their perverted agenda so far that they were willing to take people to court for not letting boys into girls’ shower rooms.
Bathrooms are about performing a biological function, not about identity.
Why do liberals hate the science of biology?
Right, they always leave out the included girls locker rooms and showers
Reading the comments on the article is revealing, typical ranting about the parade of next victims.
Don’t like Texas? Go back to kalifornia.......
You should have heard some of the stupid arguments we've been having to listen to on local news here.
Liberalism is a mental disorder - just like these idiots they're trying to cater to.
The entire article you linked to, is fascinating, bgill.
FYI....here is a link to the letter organized/generated by a group called Texas Association of Business**, and sent by businesses in OPPOSITION to this bill....
http://www.keeptxopen.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/KTOB-Signed-Letter-to-TX-Lege_3-1-17.pdf
Note the number of Chamber of Commerce’s who signed this opposition letter...not to mention other business who I will NO longer support!
**This Texas Association of Business sounds like part of the problem. Their newest CEO, (ironically named) Chris Wallace (from linked article), “defended his group’s public support for a study that reported the state could lose $8.5 billion in GDP and as many as 185,000 jobs should lawmakers approve the bill.”
(This guy needs a whaaaambulance!)
Their FORMER CEO, Bill Hammond, left to start a LOBBYING company. Imagine that! He had originally joined on with TAB to spend LESS time with his family. I kid you not! ....
Before the progressives decided to make this a legal issue there was no problem to fix. If you appeared to be a gender you used that genders bathroom. A trans person who was passable could use the other bathroom and nobody knew or thought about it. Along comes the left to fix a non exsistant problem and we have people who are not trans and not passable abusing the new policy as cover to get their jollies at the expense of innocent women and girls trying to use the restroom without men around. So to protect them the policy gets changed to you have to use your biological genders restroom...and that small minority of trans people who had been using the other restroom without us knowing are placed in the akward poition of either appearing to break the law and making others uncomfortable or breaking the law without anyone knowing, or just going out in public as their real gender. Everyone was better off before the left made all this an issue...especially the people they claimed to be helping.
What is controversial about this bill?
Why isn’t the agenda to put men in girls locker rooms considered controversial?
Texas potty bill. Two articles to read on the subject at Post #7
Because they can't control it.
The Oregon Department of Education presented their policy interpretation allowing men to enter women’s bathrooms and lockers rooms based on current gender feelings. This asymmetrical approach results in a random walk through reflective life. When comforting lights of popular expressions drive decisions, no opportunity remains to consider insights such that as from John Hopkins.
At one time their Sexual Behaviors Consultation Unit conducted candidates through a lengthy preparation process culminating with gender reassignment surgery. Study caused them to question whether any emotional resolution was achieved and they eliminated the practice in 1979. Dr. Paul R. McHugh says, “that transgenderism is a mental disorder that merits treatment….These policy makers and the media are doing no favors either to the public or the transgendered by treating their confusions as a right in need of defending rather than as a mental disorder that deserves understanding, treatment and prevention.”
Shouldn’t transgenderism first be assessed as a medical issue? Women are terribly uncomfortable with a mercurial revelation that they believe violates their inherent natural right to feel safe and private in their persons. This policy provides many the opportunities to indulge in deviant impulses. The policy thrusts a few into intimate political theater where they portray a feeble caricature of a woman, but without evidence of benefit to their psychological condition. Considering John Hopkins’ experience with reassignment surgery, shouldn’t this radical transformation of society await careful review?
Oregon lays out sweeping protections for transgender students http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2016/05/oregon_lays_out_sweeping_prote.html#incart_river_mobile_home_pop
HOPKINS MEDICAL NEWS: Sexual Healing http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/hmn/W99/top.html
Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: Transgender is ‘Mental Disorder;’ Sex Change ‘Biologically Impossible’ http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/johns-hopkins-psychiatrist-transgender-mental-disorder-sex-change
Surgical Sex - Why We Stopped Doing Sex Change Operations http://www.firstthings.com/article/2004/11/surgical-sex
This will be interesting to see what the NBA, NCAA, and the NFL do if this becomes law in Texas. Will they impose similar kinds of boycotts on Texas as they have done in NC?
Not playing a Texas team? Ha, money comes first.
Sex is determined at the time of conception even if it is not known until birth.
Liberal Republican Speaker Joe Straus is expected to kill the legislation when it arrives to the lower chamber.
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