Posted on 04/09/2016 8:24:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
It was very late at night in a nearly-deserted airport and I was alone in the bathroom when a man walked in. Or maybe just a person who looked like a man, dressed like a man, walked like a man, and had a mans haircut. As I washed my hands I looked up and casually observed, Oh, I think youre in the wrong bathroom. He or she gave me a frozen glare and an angry, sarcastic retort: No YOURE in the wrong bathroom!
The gender-nonspecific person headed for the stalls and I headed out the door. He or she was taller, larger, and more muscular than I and so I scrammed, feeling threatened. This happened a few years ago in a big city U.S. airport. Back at the lounge area, I awaited whatever creative new lies the airline desk staff could come up with to explain why my flight was several hours late.
Though it was years ago, this odd encounter came freshly to mind with all this potty talk in the news recently. Was the angry person in the rest room transitioning to male but out of habit still felt only at home in the womens bathroom, perhaps trying to avoid the visual giveaway of girly equipment at a urinal? Or was this a guy who decided to go adventuring in the ladies room?
Studies find only three-tenths of one percent of the population are transgendered persons who refuse to accept their birth assignment which is to say they rebel against the sex that God or nature bestowed upon them. They want to be the opposite sex. But far fewer go in for that irreversible surgery snip. They like to keep their options open in case they want to reverse course, stop the hormone injections, and play for the other side again. So how authentic really is their commitment to transgenderism or are they just sampling the deep end of the pool?
Most of these people are assigned male but long to be female. And now state laws increasingly give them the right to choose whatever bathroom or even shower room corresponds to the gender with which they identify on any given day. Because, you understand, theyre a protected class, unlike actual women.
So growing your hair long and wearing makeup, stiletto heels and cute outfits allows someone like Bruce aka Caitlyn Jenner to invade the ladies room and the privacy of the women there. They can call themselves transgender even though many of these individuals, like Jenner, dont feel female enough to part with their boy parts. Its true that ladies have much cooler clothes than men, and Im sure there was epic wardrobe pressure in the Jenner household with all those stylish women. I wonder how much an irresistible attraction to opposite sex fashion motivated Caitlyn.
And I have some more questions. How do you tell a transgender man who wears womens clothes from a transvestite who wears womens clothes if they both have their guy equipment? Bruce/Caitlyn says he/she is still attracted to women: so is she/he a lesbian? And whats to prevent a high school boy who identifies as a female showering with the girls after gym class literally every adolescent males fantasy. Wouldnt disallowing his gender identity choice be discriminatory? Thereve already been some bad choice incidents.
* A Palmdale, California man wearing womens clothing and a wig was arrested in a Macys store after he was seen in a womens bathroom where he was allegedly videotaping women for several hours.
* In October 2015, Breitbart Texas reported on an illegal alien who was caught filming women in a Walmart bathroom in San Angelo, Texas. He was sentenced to 270 days in jail and was subsequently turned over to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement for deportation.
* At a Seattle Parks and Recreation pool, a man undressed in a womens locker room, citing a new state rule that allows people to choose a bathroom based on gender identity. Women called staff who told the man to leave, but he said the law has changed and I have a right to be here.
Heres a word we dont hear much anymore: wrong. This insanity is simply wrong. The war on women has moved into the ladies room. Women are actually a majority in this nation and we have every right to feel safe and unthreatened in our bathroom. As women are the ones most likely to object, were already being called bigots for not wanting to share our bathrooms with men of whatever gender persuasion.
Now that homosexuals (a mere 3 to 4 percent of the population) have managed to mainstream themselves via sweet and sympathetic TV characters, same-sex marriage, the White House lit up in gay rainbows, and bullying cake-bakers, florists, and even pastors into submission, gayness is so passé. Theyve won the battle to be normal. So the next big equal rights movement is transgenderism and bathroom equality.
PayPal, the online payment company, already retaliated against North Carolina when Governor Pat McCrory signed a bill banning people from using bathrooms that dont match their birth gender. They nixed plans to build a new center in Charlotte that would have employed over 400 workers. Scolded CEO Dan Schulman, The new law perpetuates discrimination and violates the values and principles at the core of PayPals mission and culture. Yes, the very exalted mission of allowing men into womens bathrooms.
Under the banner of non-discrimination and non-judgmentalism, the homosexual lobby has for years been indoctrinating school kids with gender-bending messaging that reaches them at the very time in their lives that they are likely to have a crush on their closest same-sex friend. Its an easy matter to convince them their attachment means theyre gay, even though same-sex attraction at that age is perfectly normal.
"Gender identity disorder" or transgenderism was an illness when it first appeared in the official Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders used by mental health professionals in 1980. But predictably the most recent version of the manual, published in 2013, diluted it to "gender dysphoria," (a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety) removing the disorder stigma but still recognizing mental health problems ensue when someone "whose gender at birth is contrary to the one they identify with."
Similarly, homosexuality officially evolved in the Manual from a disorder to the progressive view that it is a healthy variation of human sexual orientation, although some professionals still maintain its a disorder. In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder. The American Psychological Association Council of Representatives followed in 1975 but the laggard World Health Organization didnt get on trend until 1990.
Those who rant that gender identity is fixed and immutable have a lot to answer for. Such as: why are men suddenly gay when theyre in prison and just as suddenly return to heterosexuality when they go home to their families? Why do some men and women marry, have a gaggle of kids, and then in their 50s or 60s decide they were actually homosexual all along? Why does Dr. Paul McHugh, professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, say gender dysphoria is a psychosocial ailment that should be treated through psychotherapy and counseling since theres scant proof that sex change surgery works and its only undertaken for an ideological reason?
Here we go again. Transgender is the new gay. Expect award-winning TV shows and films in which heroic transgender individuals are the saviors of doomed planets. But guys, we know who you are. We can see your beard stubble very clearly through your makeup. Stay out of our bathrooms.
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Closest my dad ever came to that was getting tipsy after my wedding and donning one of the bridesmaid’s hats. :-)
Dunno. I heard that she's a dancer, however.
If parents are pulling their kids from public schools over common core for private schools and homeschooling, think of how many more will dessert the public schools over this.
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I hope you’re right, but people tend to put blinders on because if government schools didn’t exist, they would actually have to make decisions about where their kids go to school. Also, government schools are really subsidized daycare so both parents can work. Government gets more taxpayers and also gets control of the kiddies for more years of their lives and hours of their days.
Parents would have to be pretty stupid to permit this to go on in their kids’ schools, but I agree that it’s easier for them to hope that their kid doesn’t have to experience any of it rather than do anything about it.
I’m hoping that this will be the final straw that will make parents rebel over the horrible things going on in government schools. We will see.
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