Posted on 11/10/2015 6:30:10 PM PST by markomalley
Dallas city council voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve an ordinance allowing transgender people to use the "facilities" of the opposite sex.
The measure, which opponents describe as a "bathroom" bill, adds "gender identity" to the city's 2002 anti-discrimination law alongside race, sex, and sexual orientation.
Mayor Mike Rawlings said, "We're a very diverse city. We want to make sure everyone is protected."
The move comes one week to the day after Houston residents voted to repeal the transgender ordinance passed by their city council. More than 60 percent of citizens said no in a landslide defeat of the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO).
Wary of a similar fate, city council member Lee Kleinman said, "This is not a bathroom ordinance. It is an anti-discrimination ordinance update."
However, the Dallas ordinance now grants members of one biological sex "access to all places of public accommodation" of their choice.
"Discrimination means any direct or indirect exclusion," the revised language says.
Although the city's LGBT Task Force has been working on the wording for a year, its opponents say council members surprised city residents by approving the language during a closed door meeting.
"This Dallas bathroom ordinance will allow men into women's bathrooms and that's why the Dallas City Council is deliberately trying to avoid the people," Jonathan Saenz, president of Texas Values Action, told LifeSiteNews by e-mail. "Their fast track method of passing this dangerous bill that threatens the safety of women and children is the same strategy used in Houston to disenfranchise voters with their failed bathroom bill. Creating law behind closed doors and forcing it onto the people the next morning is a recipe for disaster."
State Senator Don Huffines, a Republican whose district includes part of Dallas, said the council's "new sneak-attack LGBT ordinance must be repealed and carefully reviewed."
Last November, 77 percent of Dallas voters approved adding "sexual orientation" and "gender identity and expression" to the city charter - but it applied only to city employees, and "gender identity" was not approved as a stand alone measure.
"These Obama and D. C. style tactics will not work in Texas," Saenz said. "Get ready for a Texas-sized response."
Are there too many immigrants from California?
City councils will rubber stamp what they know the voters themselves would oppose.
And the funding for these things comes from out of town/state, those who fund it don’t have to actually live with it.
By funding, I mean lobbyists, not costs for reworks.
The voters in Dallas need to put this on a referendum, and then fire that city council.
Fine, so the next time women are at a concert where the lines to the Ladies room are a mile long they can all mosey on over to the men’s room where there are never any lines
So are the democrats gonna do wiener checks now?
Challenge in court, take it to the SCoTX, which already has a precedent for requiring cities to either dump the ordinance or put it up for a vote, and then vote it down.
Houston has shown the way.
“Only two things come from Texas, Steers and Queers.”
And the steers are getting skittish....
Yes, too many immigrants from CA, up north, and down south! I thought I was pretty tuned in here, watched the local news last night, glanced at the rag of a newspaper and heard nary a peep of this! Sneak, closed door scumbag attack! Yes, take em to court. Even my new council member who promised us he would always keep us informed?? Unanimous??
4HeadWig
Millions of them, with magnifying glasses too. I mean, you can't discriminate against them, for checking out the clientele now, can you? Sarcasm off
What scum bags they are.
And in other news, a record number of old perverts in trench coats have become transvestites.
There may not be lines, but remember there aren't as many seats to sit on and the other "plumbing fixtures" available may be kind of tricky for women to use. Cleanliness isn't usually a high priority either.
I do wonder if the "men"/perverts who want to use the women's room sit down or stand up in the stall?
More importantly, do they leave the seat up?
These jerks need to be voted out of office and their ordinance thrown out ASAP.
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