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a Republican whose district includes part of Dallas, said the council's "new sneak-attack LGBT ordinance must be repealed and carefully reviewed."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."
It’s sad. I knew NYC, where I am, is a liberal cesspool along with California, but I always imagined Florida and Texas being part of my escape plan. I’m starting to think liberalism is creeping into every state. I just don’t get it.
Dallas city council votes to close public bathrooms to everybody but sexual deviants.
Have they installed Urinals in the Ladies’ Rooms ?
The Dallas pols are miffed that Houston has got all the attention and wants some of it for Dallas.
Waiting for the EPA to pas this as a national law necessary to fight Climate Change.
Things are now happening right in mid-america (like this past week’s Katy, TX situation, regarding the 10-year-old girl who’s proclaimed a ‘boy’ by her two homo-perv ‘daddies,’ leading to the dismissal of daycare workers who refused to go along with such depraved nonsense) that would have been seen as too insane even for San Fransicko just five or six years ago.
It truly reveals the alarmingly quickening pace and momentum of this country’s moral and cultural rot. We’re really in a freefall now, descending into the abyss. People are going to be shocked how really fast things start coming apart, from here on out.
Time to put it up for a general election vote and bitchslap these stupid Dallas city council members.
Normal people don't want these sickos in opposite gender bathrooms.
In Texas, it is mostly only in the larger cities that the liberal germ thrives. It quickly looses a host when it moves out of dense population. Austin is by far the most seriously infected.
“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.”
Great point. How about at football and baseball arenas. All of the women should start pouring into the mens’ bathrooms. After all, anyone can go into anyone else’s bathroom in Dallas, so what’s fair is fair.
So... if I wear a wig I can go spy on chicks?
Niiiiiice.
That’s coming next, no doubt about it.
Most of the decent people left to the conservative burbs years ago. The city and county courts turned blue about 2006. Talk about a cast of misfits
Yep. DISD schools are about 60% hispanic (mostly illegals) and 35% black. The city itself is Democrat sh*thole with a lezbo “wise latina” amnesty pimp as sheriff.
That’s the problem. The population centers. Small in area but has the voting majority. I pray it’s not as bad as nyc. From what I remember, most of New York state in terms of area is conservative. Unfortunately, almost all of the population is in NYC which is lib. I knew about Austin, but was surprised recently to hear about Houston and now Dallas.
I agree. Dallas? One expects total stupidity from Austin, but Dallas? TEXAS?
There ought to be immediate protests, and adding “gender” to anti-discrimination laws opens ANY sexual perversion to “Most Protested Person” status!
You knew there would be pushback on the Houston ordinance. Here is the start of it.
I pray that those citizens in municipalities which have the provision to petition their citizens on the decision will to do so. I’m definitely going to check it out in mine.
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