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Time for transgender rights opponents to give up the fight
Los Angeles Times ^ | 12-27-2015 | The Los Angeles Times Editorial Board

Posted on 12/28/2015 4:36:18 PM PST by Salman

Ever since California's law to protect the rights of transgender students went into effect two years ago, opponents have tried to whip up fear and confusion about what they see as the scary new bathroom rules, under which they say that any child of any gender may wander into any old restroom whenever they want. Voters, however, aren't buying it. For the second time, backers of a ballot initiative to overturn the law have failed to gather enough signatures to qualify for the ballot. It's time they gave up the fight.

Lawmakers in 2013 passed the School Success and Opportunity Act, which was billed as a groundbreaking change for transgender rights, but really just clarified existing anti-discrimination policies in the state education code that were not always understood or followed. The law made it clear that transgender students may use the bathrooms and locker rooms — and can participate on the sports teams — that correspond to the gender with which they identify. The law's goal was to accommodate children born male or female, but who identify differently. It also addressed delicate issues transgender students confront daily, and eliminated the confusion and discomfort that might arise if, say, a teen who identifies and dresses as a girl was forced to use the boys' bathroom.

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To: Salman

Just roll over, America, and take it.

signed,
your hedonist media overlords.


41 posted on 12/28/2015 5:33:35 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Yep.its crazy. The left lectures us about being anti science when it comes to global warming.

But on these transsexual issues, we have to ignore science to follow the liberal agenda. We have to ignore the reality of penis and vagina, ignore the reality of chromosomal differences between male and female, in order to be in favor of their agenda.


42 posted on 12/28/2015 5:36:56 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Salman

Its always about deception, its always about sowing doubt, its always about control. The only thing these people ever want is for you to give up, and doing that is the only thing you can do that is wrong.


43 posted on 12/28/2015 5:37:50 PM PST by Vanders9
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To: Salman

LOL!!! Faggots couldn’t get enough voter approval to overturn Prop 8, but used a single judge’s decision instead, and now they’re saying that lack of voter approval should be cause for “giving up?”

They should practice what they preach. And what are they afraid of, anyway? That the sane people will succeed?


44 posted on 12/28/2015 5:38:25 PM PST by fwdude
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To: MNDude

Why isn’t what Jenner is doing considered “cultural appropriation” ?


45 posted on 12/28/2015 5:40:20 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: Salman

At some point in time there will only be queers, freaks and perverts left in California ... resistance is futile .... so it’s either join them or move away from them!


46 posted on 12/28/2015 5:43:38 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (It's not an "administration", it's a crime syndicate of liars, thieves, freaks, fools & perverts.)
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To: G Larry
Diversity sounds really good...after all, we are all different and we are all individuals and we all like to think we are special and that we matter. That is how this idealogy gets hold. It appeals to our vanity.

Unfortunately, there is a dark side to it. The ultimate implication of diversity is that all realities, and all experiences, and all cultures are equally valid. But that is the same as saying they are all equally invalid, which basically means that your prized individuality is actually of no moment, because by the tenets of diversity, you are no more important than anyone else.

Its a marxist philosophy, and like all marxist thinking it values equality above all else. That wouldnt be so bad, except that it proposes to achieve that equality by dragging everyone down to the same level.

47 posted on 12/28/2015 5:46:35 PM PST by Vanders9
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To: Irenic

Why isn’t what Jenner is doing considered “cultural appropriation”

And trying to re-post correctly it tried to â„¢ (trademark) the word *isn’t* and alt- numpad 0153 won’t correctly let me do tm, it makes the a c


48 posted on 12/28/2015 5:46:48 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: Vanders9
Its a marxist philosophy, and like all marxist thinking it values equality above all else. That wouldnt be so bad, except that it proposes to achieve that equality by dragging everyone down to the same level.

Actually this is the tool Marxists use to gain power. But once they do, trust me, They will impose their one vision on everybody, there is no diversity under Marxism. Diversity is merely the took Marxists use to destroy the current order and achieve power.

49 posted on 12/28/2015 5:49:30 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

That should read....

Diversity is merely the tool Marxists use to destroy the current order and achieve power.


50 posted on 12/28/2015 5:49:57 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Salman

The heart of the matter is that the cultural-left worldview posits that humans are a blank-slate and that all differences are merely socially constructed. Gender, they say, is socially constructed, a figment of our minds. This is nonsense, as the case of David Reimer shows, but they believe it.

Further, they believe that since reality is subjective, and socially constructed, the human will should reign supreme, being unfettered by religious conviction, cultural tradition, or even nature itself. It matters little that men have xy chromosomes and women xx, or that only biological women can give birth or menstruate - reality is socially constructed, and those things believe they have the right to decide things, so why pay them heed?

Thus, we have this social nihilism, in which our subjective mind is said to create reality.

Since the human will can not be rightfully opposed - even when defying nature, says the cultural left, government must secure whatever anyone dares to desire or want.

What’s left in this tradition-less, secular, blank-slate world is a “will to power” in which each side struggles for the machinery of the state to impose their will upon the other and secure their desires.

Thus, we get the Justice Department forcing local schools who refuse to recognize males who think they are females or vice-versa as anything other than who they actually are - to recognize that subjective perception and call it reality. We also get this pathetic call for surrender.

I’m reminded of an exchange between Castro, and that secular prophet of despair (and commie) Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre asked Castro what the meaning of his revolution was.

“That a man should have whatever he wants,” Castro says.

“But what if he wants the moon?”

Castro pondered this, and responded, “Then he should have it.”

Today we ask, “What if a man wants to be a woman?”


51 posted on 12/28/2015 6:05:11 PM PST by Dr. Talon
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To: Salman

Um, no.

L


52 posted on 12/28/2015 6:07:45 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: longtermmemmory

“Gender confirmation”? Seems to me that one’s gender can usually be confirmed by looking in the underwear.


53 posted on 12/28/2015 6:11:59 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: Gay State Conservative

You are what you are, your gender is not just your parts, but your chromosomes, and bone structure, etc.., that is what you learn in biology and sex ed, you cannot change what you are, accept it.


54 posted on 12/28/2015 6:37:05 PM PST by the_individual2014
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To: relictele

it’s ok.

tomorrow, wake up and decide you’re a black single mother and deserve some of that free ‘0bama money’

then go to the bank and demand a loan for a property you cannot afford. if they deny you, claim racism.


55 posted on 12/28/2015 6:46:23 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Salman

The fight for common sense and decency never ends.


56 posted on 12/28/2015 7:02:15 PM PST by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: the_individual2014
You are what you are, your gender is not just your parts...

Yah,that's true...but the underwear is the first place to look for a big clue as to exactly what you are.

57 posted on 12/28/2015 7:07:40 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: relictele

The other idiocy is the transgendered (mentally ill men, mostly) who announce that with this change, they are lesbians.
So not only are they mentally ill, and demanding the right to use the women’s bathroom before allowed surgery to remove the penis or don’t want to make that commitment, but these “transgendered lesbians” are also sexually attracted to women.

I would have less issue sharing the women’s bathroom with a homosexual man than a transgendered freak. And I’ve had to share the bathroom with the mentally ill gender dysphoric man.


58 posted on 12/28/2015 7:46:01 PM PST by tbw2
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To: Salman

NEVER!


59 posted on 12/28/2015 7:49:06 PM PST by Taxman (H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.)
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To: Salman

Is this not at the Scriptural stage described as follows:

“He who is filthy, let him be filthy still (in peace).” ?


60 posted on 12/28/2015 8:17:46 PM PST by Twinkie (Kneel at the cross, Jesus (Yeshua) will meet you there.)
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