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‘Straight into the paper shredder:’ Texans decry Obama schools directive about transgender bathrooms
The Washington Post ^ | May 13, 2016 | Katie Mettler

Posted on 05/13/2016 6:13:44 AM PDT by Trump20162020

News of the president’s forthcoming directive requiring educators to let students use bathrooms according to their gender identity — not their birth certificate — offered a welcome set of guidelines to some school administrators Thursday night about how they ought to proceed amidst the ongoing legal and cultural bathroom battle embroiling the nation.

As Obama’s time in the White House ticks away, the president wants his administration to leave a legacy of social reform, especially when it comes to issues like same-sex marriage, immigration, healthcare, clean air and climate change. Because Congress is under Republican control, Obama has mostly had to blaze this trail on his own. While doing so, however, the administration has in many ways left in its wake a mess of court and cultural battles that will likely wind up in the lap of the next president.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: arth; bhohomosexualagenda; education; homosexualagenda; nothanks; obama; texas; unisex
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To: Trump20162020
Greg Abbott

✔ ‎‎@GregAbbott_TX

I announced today that Texas is fighting this. Obama can't rewrite the Civil Rights Act. He's not a King. #tcot https://twitter.com/abc13houston/status/730950825950908416 …

No, he's a queen.

21 posted on 05/13/2016 7:16:25 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Trump20162020

Oh joy another idiotic directive from President Sitzpinkler


22 posted on 05/13/2016 7:16:41 AM PDT by commish (Freedom tastes Sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it!)
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To: Mustangman
First of all, from a strictly legal standpoint, what is a transgender person? Is it simply a dude who dresses like a girl? Or, is it anyone who says they are a girl regardless of how they dress?

Yep. Somehow I see millions of teenage boys claiming they are girls! And when confronted by school officials since they are not dressed like girls or undergoing "transition" all they have to claim is -- "I am a girl! I am a lesbian and like to dress like a boy!!"

23 posted on 05/13/2016 7:20:35 AM PDT by commish (Freedom tastes Sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it!)
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To: Trump20162020
obozo is actually doing this country a favor by trying to implement this kind of crap. Trump wants to hand education back to the locals and remove the federal government and after this obozo BS, I doubt Trump will face much, if any, resistance from the people nor congress.
24 posted on 05/13/2016 7:22:20 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: ManHunter

“Sniff, sniff... Is that a secession vote I smell...?”


No, unfortunately not. Apparently the pussies in the Texas Republican Party won’t even allow a vote on the motion.

I hope that they at least have the guts to pass a motion that effectively tells Obama and his Department of Just Us to take that “order” regarding freaks going into whatever bathroom strikes their fancy on any given day, and tells them to shove it hard and far up where the sun don’t shine.


25 posted on 05/13/2016 7:22:21 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: biff

Oops - sorry I misinterpreted. I think Trump wanted to leave it up to the individual states.

We had a rash of stolen purses from public restrooms a while back. Women would go into stall and set their purse on the floor while doing their business. Person would come into adjoining stall and reach under divider and take their purse and run out. So they placed warning signs in the stalls to hang their purse on the door hook. I just quit using public restrooms unless on a road trip and then only those that are for a single person with a lock on the door. Might have to end up using Depends after all. LOL


26 posted on 05/13/2016 7:23:16 AM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Trump20162020

27 posted on 05/13/2016 7:23:53 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Trump20162020

This is fascism, plain and simple. Obama has Nothing to brag about.


28 posted on 05/13/2016 7:25:30 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Trump20162020

“This will be the beginning of the end of the public school system as we know it,” he told NBC 5.


29 posted on 05/13/2016 7:25:52 AM PDT by goldi
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To: Mouton

My salute cannon will roar with glee if this happens as expected.


30 posted on 05/13/2016 7:25:53 AM PDT by mcshot (The "Greatest Generation" would never have allowed the trashing of our Republic.)
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To: biff

Trump has the same policy for his buildings as Target, as far I can tell. But he did say some things that make me think he probably isn’t for the state mandating that businesses have to choose to let men use their women’s bathrooms. But who knows, that part was pretty garbled in my opinion. Don’t know what he really thinks about publicly owned bathrooms, unless you take what he said as an endorsement of Charlotte’s ordinance by not being down with the NC state law that changed it.

If someone would have told us 20 years ago that in 2016 one probable candidate chooses to let men use the women’s bathrooms in his buildings and the other wants to force everyone to so, we would have called the guys with butterfly nets on them.

Freegards


31 posted on 05/13/2016 7:32:00 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: ManHunter

Nah, these dictates are so ridiculous they’re comical. First off they’re coming as directives from the DOJ using a pretentious, unfounded reference to the 1964 civil rights act which has nothing to do with “gender identity” or any other type of self-identification. Secondly, they’re imposed as an ipso facto regulation when the DOJ has no authority to create regulatory law.

It’s a good illustration how far bureaucrats have gone in making their own rules and imposing it upon the people in spite of Congress.


32 posted on 05/13/2016 7:32:14 AM PDT by Justa
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To: JustaCowgirl

You are being overly optimistic.


33 posted on 05/13/2016 7:32:25 AM PDT by Jedidah
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To: The Louiswu
"Since when is this country ruled by directives?"

Since 65 million traitorous Demonicrats twice elected an demonic pile of excrement to the Oval office, and a RINO-controlled traitorous Congress willfully joined in.

When you see a car with Obama or Hillary bumperstickers, the person driving is likely one of those traitorous Demonicrats. Be sure to let then know you appreciate what they've done.

34 posted on 05/13/2016 7:44:21 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Trump20162020
Obama has mostly had to blaze this trail on his own ...

Because NOTHING is as important to the U.S. as freaks wanting to use the women's bathroom.

Can we please stop with the insanity already?????

F U B O!

35 posted on 05/13/2016 7:47:42 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: commish

My bet is women on the political left are going to struggle with this illegal decree the most. They are all snooty about ‘so called’ lack of equality, and men holding the ‘so called’ glass ceiling over their heads, but are they really going to want to be doing their business in a stall next to a person who is clearly dude?

Seriously, are left-leaning women really going to stand at podiums at college campuses and on Sunday talk shows and really advocate for this sort of thing? Like I say, if and when they do advocate for gender neutral bathrooms, follow them into the bathroom when you get a chance in give them what they want to give to the rest of the public....an excruciatingly uncomfortable personal experience.


36 posted on 05/13/2016 7:50:07 AM PDT by Mustangman
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To: Trump20162020

37 posted on 05/13/2016 7:52:14 AM PDT by PROCON
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To: Trump20162020

Always remember: The President cannot legislate. Executive orders can control ONLY the Executive Branch.


38 posted on 05/13/2016 7:52:16 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK
Always remember: The President cannot legislate. Executive orders can control ONLY the Executive Branch.

Obama has moved from President to totalitarian.

39 posted on 05/13/2016 7:53:27 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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40 posted on 05/13/2016 7:54:52 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper ((Just say no to HRC))
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