Posted on 05/10/2016 4:22:44 PM PDT by xzins
The U.S. Justice Department is putting the feelings of transgenders -- men who think they are women and women who think they are men -- above the privacy rights of the vast majority of people who don't contest the biological facts of who they actually are.
"And what we must not do, what we must never do, is turn on our neighbors, our family members, our fellow Americans for something that they cannot control and deny what makes them human," Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Monday.
"[N]one of us can stand by when a state enters the business of legislating identity and insists that a person pretend to be something or someone that they are not."
But Lynch was referring to people who, in fact, are pretending to be something that -- biologically -- they are not. A man "identifying" as a woman is not a biological woman. And likewise, a woman "identifying" as a man is not a biological man. Until now, that is, when the federal government has determined that biological facts matter less than wishes and feelings.
Lynch announced a federal civil rights lawsuit against North Carolina because of the state's new law (HB-2), which requires transgender people in public facilities to use the restrooms consistent with their sex "as noted at birth," rather than the restrooms that fit their "gender identity."
"We are seeking a court order declaring HB-2's restroom restriction impermissibly discriminatory, as well as a statewide bar on its enforcement," Lynch announced. She said the Justice Department also retains the option of "curtailing federal funding to the North Carolina Department of Public Safety and the University of North Carolina as this case proceeds."
This came hours after North Carolina sued the Justice Department "for their radical reinterpretation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which would prevent plaintiffs from protecting the bodily privacy rights of state employees while accommodating the needs of transgendered state employees."
Lynch accused North Carolina and its leaders of creating "state-sponsored discrimination against transgender individuals, who simply seek to engage in the most private of functions in a place of safety and security, a right taken for granted by most of us."
(Much of the outcry over this issue comes from people who are not confused about their gender "as noted at birth," and who also "simply seek to engage in the most private of functions in a place of safety and security." Many women, in particular, object to sharing restrooms with men who supposedly "identify" as women.)
Lynch said the federal civil rights lawsuit "is about a great deal more than bathrooms."
She even invoked the nation's "founding ideals," although it's unlikely that the nation's Founders ever envisioned the concept of "gender identity" as being open to interpretation.
In fact, the law invoked by Lynch -- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- does not explicitly include gender identity in its list of protected bases. It bars discrimination on the basis of "sex," a term that has been stretched over the years to include gender identity.
"This is about the dignity and the respect that we accord our fellow citizens and the laws that we as a people and as a country have enacted to protect them, indeed, to protect all of us," Lynch said on Monday.
"And it's about the founding ideals that have led to this country haltingly, but inexorably, in the direction of fairness, inclusion, and equality for all Americans."
Lynch said North Carolina's "discriminatory" response to transgenders is no different than discrimination against blacks and homosexuals.
"Now, some of these responses reflect a recognizably human fear of the unknown and a discomfort with the uncertainty of change. But this is not a time to act out of fear. This is a time to summon our national virtues of inclusivity, of diversity, of compassion and open- mindedness.
"And what we must not do, what we must never do is turn on our neighbors, our family members, our fellow Americans for something that they cannot control and deny what makes them human.
"And this is why none of us can stand by when a state enters the business of legislating identity and insists that a person pretend to be something or someone that they are not or invents a problem that does not exist as a pretext for discrimination and harassment."
Addressing her fellow North Carolinians, Lynch refuted those who say the bathroom law protects vulnerable populations (children and women) from harm (sexual predators posing as transgenders to get into the ladies' room).
"That is just not the case," she insisted. "Instead, what this law does is inflict further indignity on a population that has already suffered far more than its fair share.
"This law provides no benefit to society, and all it does is harm innocent Americans. And instead of turning away from our neighbors, our friends, and our colleagues, let us instead learn from our history and avoid repeating the mistakes of our past."
Just when you thought it could not get worse, it does!
They have given themselves over to a reprobate mind.
They make up their own truth
Trump is getting more support by the day.
See post 35. Vic has some good thoughts.
These people need to meet God.
I highly recommend the remote connection.
My wife has a T-shirt that says “Prayer is the original wireless connection”.
This is the ultimate example of liberals believing thoughts are reality. Your feelings trump biological reality.
I got my own hot spot. Great reminder
I am of the opinion that the states need to start reporting gays and transgenders to the NCIS data base as being mentally ill.
This all is merely a distraction to cover up something else in the works we don’t know about.
Besides what does it matter? If obozo can think he is a world leader instead of loser why can’t I think I am a horse?
If I think and feel that I am the President of the United States, then I should have every right to jump the White House fence and go right on into my home.
Who are these hypocrites to deny me my identity?
Who are they to deny you your limo and front door key. :?)
This is not an issue of discrimination. No one is stopping transgenders or transvestites or anyone else from going to the bathroom. They merely say, if you have a penis, go in that one, if not go in the other. If I could use photoshop, I would do a penis and no penis sign as the new rest rooms signs.
This will mark the end of women getting sports scholarships. Guys that aren’t quite good enough to get a full athletic scholarship on a men’s team can just say they feel like a woman and get on the women’s team. And the bonus is that they can then shower with the girls. If anybody questions their attraction to the fairer sex, they can just claim to feel like a lesbian.
I, for one, am glad you don't know how to use photoshop.
add my family to the list
They should be lynched.
LOL! The emperor “still” has no clothes!
In my day; it was just "feel a girl"!
If I were a cockroach; SOMEbody would get sued for slander!
I remember when BUSSING first appeared on the scene.
The Feds, however, apparently have no limit to what they can force on people.
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/na-navajolongwalk.html
Ya think??
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