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NYC mayor orders that men have access to women’s restrooms
LifeSiteNews ^ | 3/11/16 | Father Mark Hodges

Posted on 03/14/2016 8:29:58 AM PDT by wagglebee

NEW YORK CITY, March 11, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) -- New York Mayor Bill de Blasio issued an executive order giving men the right to use women's bathrooms and locker rooms, and vice versa.

The mayor's edict is called, "Access to Single-Sex City Facilities Consistent With Gender Identity and Expression."  It means that all New York City single-gender facilities must accommodate both sexes, including city buildings and offices, parks, children's playgrounds, swimming pools, and more, all access given without showing identification or any proof of gender.

Mayor de Blasio declared that transgenders using opposite sex bathrooms and locker rooms "is a fundamental human right that should not be restricted or denied to any individual."

Ironically, he added, "Every New Yorker should feel safe in our city."  Critics question whether the mayor includes those who do not feel safe in public showers and toilets that the opposite sex may undress in and use, or if he only refers to making the gender confused feel more comfortable in their ailment.

“Mayor Bill de Blasio’s executive order suffers from three fatal flaws," Stephen P. Hayford, Communications Director for New York's Family Research Foundation, told LifeSiteNews.  "First, like Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s recent transgender regulation, the Mayor’s order addresses an issue that should have been handled (if at all) through legislative action."

"Second, the Mayor’s order is based on the confused notion that a person’s gender is a legal construct ‘assigned at birth,’ rather than a biological reality," Hayford explained.

"Third, and most importantly, the Mayor’s order completely fails to take into account the negative impact that opposite-sex restroom and locker room use by ‘transgender’ individuals in City facilities would have upon other users of those facilities.”  

Family Policy of Washington Executive Director Joseph Backholm was one of the critics questioning de Blasio, suggesting that transgender people aren't the only ones who need to feel safe and whose rights need to be protected.

"All have legal rights to privacy," Backholm said.  "The problem is governments choosing one person's rights over everybody else."

"Everybody has an interest here, and we need to behave like adults and make sure that nobody gets to say my rights trump your rights because I say so," he said.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; moralabsolutes; transgender
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To: dp0622

I’m guessing that news of any rapes that occur as a result of this edict will be suppressed by the MSM. And, yes, the people of NYC are getting what they deserve for voting this guy in. Just feel sorry for the minority who voted against him.


61 posted on 03/14/2016 9:56:46 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: wiggen

lol. I still don’t know WT# a transgender is.

i’m ok paesan :)

another day, what are you gonna do.


62 posted on 03/14/2016 10:12:49 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: dp0622

its someone not sure what they are. (shruggs)


63 posted on 03/14/2016 10:39:57 AM PDT by wiggen (#JeSuisCharlie)
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To: wagglebee

This seems to be according to the Communist creed ... social justice at its most insane! It’ll take a tough and persistent “female” to use that urinal!


64 posted on 03/14/2016 10:40:26 AM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Lower than Whale feces - Benghazi Clinton lying to the mothers of the murdered State Dept. employees)
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To: Junk Silver

Lol! It’s getting harder and harder to tell satire from reality these days, eh?


65 posted on 03/14/2016 10:41:54 AM PDT by XenaLee (The only good commie is a dead commie)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

But even Islamists have separate facilities for men and women. I guess the liberals’ goal is that American women will be treated as even more lowly and less worthy of respect than Muslim women are. They’ve almost accomplished this.

-JT


66 posted on 03/14/2016 10:55:41 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Yaelle
Seriously, transgender are 1% of the population.

Try .1 or .2%, gays are 1 or 2%.

67 posted on 03/14/2016 10:59:50 AM PDT by sharkhawk (Here come the Hawks, the mighty Black Hawks)
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To: IronJack
Meanwhile, if you're a guy with any guts, when you hear women screaming about a man in their bathroom, you can go in, bum rush the perv out of there....

In the spirit of "Good Samaritan" laws, one could mightly speed up the full transition process right there and then. Good reason to carry at least two knives every day.

68 posted on 03/14/2016 11:09:19 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: wagglebee

That’s going to end well......


69 posted on 03/14/2016 11:54:10 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: wiggen; exit82; nickcarraway

thought of you guys when nickcarraway asked me what I was having for dinner.

mother brought over meatballs, sausage, macaroni, braciole and Capicola for a snack. lol.

I already had sausage and five other meats in the house but she gets bored and likes to come over :) 83 and still gets around.

can’t make home made cavatelli or Sicilian pizza anymore though


70 posted on 03/14/2016 2:09:19 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: wagglebee

Absolute insanity.


71 posted on 03/14/2016 11:06:10 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: dp0622

i have a place here for fresh ravioli. good meats at another. buy cheese and pepperoni in little Italy. My mom passed at 90 nearly 8 years ago. My dad still lives in the same apt on the lower east side. He’s 94. Still has most of his wits about him.


72 posted on 03/15/2016 12:03:03 AM PDT by wiggen (#JeSuisCharlie)
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To: wiggen

Sorry about your mother. At 83, I’m hoping for the 90s.

God, have I made her life hard lol. poor woman.

Glad pop is doing well.

Lower East Side.

Man, you’re about as NYC as they get lol.

Make me look like a farm boy on Staten Island


73 posted on 03/15/2016 12:14:33 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: Jamestown1630

So we all become moozlums. Problem solved.


74 posted on 03/15/2016 1:53:10 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: dp0622

-)


75 posted on 03/15/2016 2:58:02 AM PDT by wiggen (#JeSuisCharlie)
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