Hint look at the picture and count the legs
Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. Calling a boy a girl doesn't make him a girl.
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."
Disgrace, and if she doesn’t indict she will be getting a letter from me on why we have the 2nd amendment.
To me this situation sets up a the opportunity for a type of protest to expose the absurdity of what they are pushing on everyone.
What would occur if several guys tag teamed a women’s restroom so there was always a male (who at the moment felt they were otherwise) present.
Better yet, should they extend this inane policy to public schools and universities, have a large group of males simply decide on a random basis (organized via social media) to only use the girls bathroom on a given day. Chaos would ensue..which would be quite useful.
Hey Loretta...if I feel like an olive...do I still have to pay my taxes?
If you “felt” you were an illegal alien, you could successfully collect lots of welfare.
They seem to admit they are powerless to say you are not.
“Lynch: States Can’t ‘Insist’ a Man is a Man and a Woman is a Woman, If Person Feels Otherwise”
Soooo. . .one of those confused trans type that was born a female but identifies as a male, then doesn’t that require the trans to now register for the draft? I mean, come on, either the trans is a male or not. . .and if the trans feels they are a man then the federal government can’t insist otherwise and the trans MUST register for the draft.
Sanity is so out of style in our government, Jim.
I don’t think they’ll bring you on board.
I thought the ‘Progressives’ were all about science.
They use Scientists’ consensus for climate change with phony data. Yet when biology (still a science, right?) says a ‘Y’ chromosome is a ‘Y’ and an ‘X’ is an ‘X’, they decide just by sheer will or ‘feelings’ they can change that.
And Post 25. . .opens a whole new can of worms. . .
Don’t forget these are the same idiots who call US the science deniers.
I am a biological male who identifies as a female who likes to dress in men’s clothing.
I guess I will be using the Ladies room.
Cuz that is just how f’ed up the left is.
Why have Men and Women bathrooms at all?
http://www.livescience.com/27248-chromosomes.html
” Humans have an additional pair of sex chromosomes for a total of 46 chromosomes. The sex chromosomes are referred to as X and Y, and their combination determines a person’s sex. Human females have two XX chromosomes while males possess an XY pairing. This XY sex-determination system is found in most mammals as well as some reptiles and plants.”
As usual, liberals are anti-science.
We already have a word for what they call “trans women”. Normal people call those men “sissies”. We already have a word for what they call “trans men”; normal people call them “tomboys”. I have no respect for the sissies of my generation, but at least they were not nearly as whiny and demanding as today’s sissies. I was more than fine with (some) of the tomboys of my generation. Like almost every non-sissy guy of my generation, I had a crush on a tomboy named Elly May Clampett, played brilliantly by Donna Douglas.
Hint look at the picture and count the legs
Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. Calling a boy a girl doesn't make him a girl.
A woman has the “ right to privacy” is she wants to kill her unborn child but the 99% of us who want privacy when we pee, have no place to turn. I can’t wait until we are rid of these disgusting people.
OK, throw us in that briar patch.
UNC is a big liberal indoctrination operation. Good opportunity to cut way back on their budget..
And as for "public safety," repeal restrictions on concealed carry, and reinstitute chain gangs to defray prison costs.
Marxism (as defined in Marx and Engel's "The Communist Manifesto", 1848 - which was based on the work of Weishaupt) has been replaced with Cultural Marxism, which is subset of Critical Theory (remember, Obama taught Critical Race Theory while a lecturer at Univ of Chicago.)
Herbert Marcuse in 1965 wrote "Represive Tolerance." Here is a sample:
The small and powerless minorities which struggle against the force conciousness and its beneficiaries must be helped. Their continued existence is more important than the preservation of abused rights and liberties which grant constitutional powers to those who oppresed these minorities.
Social justice, neoprogressivism, feminism and post-colonialism, to name but a few, are all momvements born out of Critical Theory and thus come under the umbrella of Cultural Marxism. Be its agenda sexual orientation, family, race, culture or religion, every aspect of a persons identity should be questioned, every norm or standard of a society challenged and ideally altered in order to benefit supposedly oppresed groups."
Classical Marxism saw class conflict between the bougiosie and the proletariet, the haves and the have nots. Cultural Marxism sees that conflict between the oppersers and the opperessed. Those with priveledge and those without it. The working class has been replaced by minorities. The majority group is labeled the oppressors and the minority group the oppressed. Heterosexuals are oppressive, one-gender people are oppressive, whites are oppressive (especially white men), Christians are oppressive. Those that don't fit into these groups are thus considered oppressed.
Crazy people.
Nothing new labeling won’t cure.
Penis/Vagina/Mentally Ill
And millions of young boys chose to “feel like a girl”, and got their dreams of watching girls in the gym locker room, come true.
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.
This is LITERALLY crazy. There is nowhere else to go, here...
Of course the law does no such thing. It merely insists that if your birth certificate indicates that you are a male, you use the Men's restroom and if it says that you are a female then you use the Women's restroom. The only "feelings" involved at all are those which motivate one to use a restroom at all.
A person who is born a male and who uses the Men's room is perfectly free to consider himself a man, a woman, or a gerbil. The law is completely silent on such a personal matter.
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