Posted on 03/05/2008 10:19:26 AM PST by Mr. Silverback
Mary Ann Andree was drying her hair in the Rio Sport and Health Club in Gaithersburg, Maryland, last month when the door to the women’s locker room suddenly opened. In came a man, wearing a blue ruffled skirt and make-up.
As Andree later told reporters, “I was very upset. There is a lot he could have seen.” Andree is far from alone. A lot of other women in Montgomery County, Maryland, are upset over a new law that demands co-ed locker rooms and bathrooms in all public accommodations.
Montgomery County, adjacent to Washington, D.C., passed the law last November to accommodate “transgendered people”—that is, men who perceive themselves to be women, and women who perceive themselves to be men. The law adds gender identity to the list of protected classes to the Montgomery County Code banning discrimination.
In effect, it means men will have full access to a woman’s restroom and locker room. A woman taking a shower after her aerobics class might look up to find a man turning on the shower next to hers. A little girl using a movie theater restroom will now have to worry that a strange man might walk in.
Michelle Turner, who leads a citizens group opposing the law, says, “Any biological male who is willing to wear a dress and who is feeling transgendered at that particular moment can enter the ladies room or locker room.”
And what is to stop non-transgendered men from entering the ladies’ room? Nothing. A child molester or rapist could put on a dress and go right in. So could pornographists. It is an appalling, shocking law. And get this: There is no exemption for religious schools, book stores, churches, and daycares. As Turner notes, “The act will use the force of law to make these organizations accept transgenders, transvestites, and cross-dressers as employees.”
The American Psychiatric Association classifies gender identity disorder as a mental disorder. Supporters of the Montgomery County law refuse to accept this, and they have decided that you and I are not going to be allowed to accept it, either. Dana Beyer, a “transgendered” person employed by the Montgomery County Council, says that if you believe that XY chromosomes and male genitalia make someone male, you are a bigot.
In effect, transgendered persons are demanding that Montgomery County erase the distinctions between males and females. Make no mistake: This is not about the need for co-ed bathrooms. This law is simply being used to normalize gender identity disorder—much in the same way the gay lobby uses laws to normalize homosexuality.
Montgomery County officials passed this law despite the fact that citizens opposed it by an eight-to-one margin. The good news is that concerned citizens have gathered enough signatures to put the issue on the November ballot.
But Montgomery County is not the only jurisdiction passing laws like these. Check out what your own local leaders are doing to protect your privacy rights. And parents, make sure your kids know the difference between the Christian view of sexuality and that being propagated by those who think they ought to be allowed to choose their gender and their bathroom.
Women are going to get upset about men in dresses leaving the seat up in the ladies room.
The solution is that there are women who’ve pushed for their right to have “women only” gymnasiums. Would they also be able to turn away the crossdressers?
It is.
That's what medical and life insurance is for.
“Didn’t CA pass something like this statewide a while ago? Dunno when it takes effect. “
Yes, it was signed into law here last fall and went into effect this January 1, 2008. It has not gotten alot of media attention, but the Christian community is aware. There is an effort to get the children out of the public schools. This same law is NOW in effect in all of California public schools. Boys can use the girls bathroom if they claim they are “girls” and the school is NOT allowed to tell the parents. Think of it! You just know some poor girl is going to get raped. And it is the fault of our illustrious Rino of a Governor and the legislature.
When liberals rule....
Heh!Heh!!So the high school sophomores now run things in Montgomery County!!!!!
Freak county in a freak state.
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The tranny will have matching shoes and purse, and do a decent job on his makeup
They vote for the people who bring them this sort of law, then are upset at the result. You made your bed, now lie in it.
Don’t be hating.
I wonder how this will impact places like Dearborn, Michigan, with large Muslim populations. What happens when the PC crowd has to deal with Sharia sensibilities? They’re building footwashers at Michigan universities—how will they handle the gender-benders?
Harvard institutes "women only" gyms — because of pressure from Muslims.
I hear where your reasoning is coming from; but Massachusetts would have to pass a similar law before it could be tested at Harvard; either that, or a Montgomery County institution would have to set up "women only" gym hours. Perhaps conservatives can find a Republican transgendered person to test run a mosque ladies' room in Montgomery County, Maryland.
LOL, I think.
nothing may have happened in CA yet, but that's a mighty big YET. It won't be too awful long before the adolescents catch onto the deal and the hijinx will begin.
The problem here is that there is a conflict between civil behavior by moral standards and civil behavior by law.
The law does not make fine distinctions, nor is it a systematic philosophy. Morality, on the other hand, promotes a code of conduct in society.
Laws provide sanctions against specific activities. Morality supports a code of conduct.
The rationale for abandoning morality is that it restricts those who do not accept its standards. That, however, is the purpose of morality, to impose a set of standards, especially upon social misfits.
Moral standards are imposed through acceptance and rejection. Neighbors take offense at the behavior of those who act inappropriately. Through discourse and civil behavior conflict is resolved. This creates a social contract in a community and in a nation. So-called hate legislation seeks to make such social contracts illegal. This has the effect of delegitimising community standards.
The difficulty with abandoning morally grounded community standards is that there is no substitute for them. The law does not set standards. It merely imposes punishment upon excesses.
If, as a society, we are constrained by nothing more than the law it is because we have ceased to act civilly. If our only form of social redress is to impose government resolution we have abandoned civil discourse and returned to the law of the jungle.
If government is our only source of redress with each other we cast ourselves upon the authority of a strong man who imposes his will at his pleasure. That is the best characterization of government and it is one our forefathers bled and died to end.
Montgomery county is cursed with elected officials who deem it their solemn duty to legislate human behavior. They are not equal to the task. They demonstrate their stupidity by failing to recognize the difference between sexual organs and sexual attitudes.
Winchester or Mossberg.
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Let us pray it does not come to this. But, unless we push back now, it may well. If it does, I pray there will be many more men like you also ready to stand in the gap.
It amazes me how this path of social destruction encourages even more evil.
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Agree 100% on the prayer, and thanks for the compliment.
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