Posted on 10/20/2020 9:10:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
Disaster The gravity of this issue is wildly out of proportion with the small amount of attention it's receiving in the broader conversation about this election.
I took a train up to New York City the April after President Trump’s inauguration to cover a “Times Talk” discussion featuring Camille Paglia and Andy Cohen. Early in the event, Paglia said the moment she predicted Trump would win the 2016 election was when the Obama administration pushed transgender bathrooms. “There’s the election, right there,” she remembered thinking. That line stuck with me.
It was, Paglia added, the “worst moment to approach a radical new idea.” This was presumably a reference to a policy that came out of Obama’s Education Department in May 2016. With a simple “Dear Colleague” letter, the department made federal funding contingent on schools complying with a new interpretation of Title IX which recognized “on the basis of sex” to include “gender identity.”
Fast-forward to Thursday night, when Joe Biden rambled into an unsettling answer when asked about transgender discrimination during an ABC News town hall. I immediately thought back to Paglia’s statement. “The idea that an eight-year-old child or a 10-year-old child decides, you know I decided, ‘I want to be transgender. That’s what I think I’d like to be. It would make my life a lot easier.’ There should be zero discrimination,” Biden insisted.
That appears to be the potential president of the United States endorsing the notion that an eight-year-old can decide her biological sex is inconsistent with her perceived gender identity, and must be treated as such legally and socially. Biden also supports the Equality Act which, in accordance with Paglia’s theory, is so radical that conservatives are literally running ads tying him and other Democrats to the legislation.
The “Dear Colleague” letter issued while Biden was veep had sweeping implications, and the administration knew it. (See this Snopes fact-check. Even Snopes had to rate the statement “Obama Decrees ALL Public Schools Must Allow Transgender Bathroom Use” to be “mostly true.”) Not only did the department legislate by letter, encroaching on congressional duties, it used that letter to implement a dramatic and radical change.
The move amounted both to bad policy and bad politics. Where the cultural left promotes radical policies and ideas on gender, their agenda goes way too far for voters outside coastal enclaves. And rightfully so, as Abigail Shrier documented extensively in “Irreversible Damage.” That agenda is untested and wreaking havoc among teens.
Why Transgenderism Is Exploding Among Teenage Girls: Abigail Shrier Explains
This policy will return immediately in a Biden administration. The former veep pledges to reinstate the directive “on his first day in office,” according to his campaign website. The implications for schools go beyond bathrooms, but will also surely impact curriculum and sports.
Prohibited discrimination, in line with the Title IX directive, would involve any treatment whatsoever of an eight-year-old that is inconsistent with his perceived gender identity. That is dangerous and confusing but also invites major messes into our schools, which had largely been in session under the previous guidance for only a few months until Obama’s lame-duck term set in.
Biden also pledges to put a “quick end” to the Title IX guidelines on campus sexual assault issued by Education Secretary Betsy Devos, which cleaned up the disastrous and widely panned guidelines issued by the Obama administration. If Biden were to replace Devos’s policy with the Obama-era policy, which he ardently supported, campuses would be thrust once more into chaos, and students would again be at risk of losing due process rights.
Devos’s Education Department supports school choice, and has rolled back a host of Obama-era policies Biden is almost certain to resurrect. Biden, for instance, opposes voucher programs.
Given the alarming trends Shrier and others have documented, which involve adults promoting and prescribing to teenagers drugs that cause irreversible changes, Biden’s ideological and policy positions on transgenderism would likely result in many harmful and highly consequential actions from his Education Department. Campus kangaroo courts would return, and more innocent students would be hurt by them.
It wouldn’t stop there. Given Biden’s personal embrace of far-left cultural notions regarding sex and gender, it’s fair to assume his Education Department would swiftly implement a sweeping and radical agenda across the board. The gravity of this issue is wildly out of proportion with the small amount of attention it’s receiving in the broader conversation about this election.
“Radical”, “disaster” and “Democrat” are now as inseperable as “communist” and “progressive” have become. Or as inseparable as “women’s rights” and the murder of the innocent have become.
The Left, leftwing ideology, is simply bad, it will corrupt all who drink from its ideology, and if they drink deep enough, judging by the eruption of those who give every evidence of being in a Romans 1:18-32 state we see in our culture, it may too frequently help cut off people from even the hope of salvation.
Yes, there are abuses outside of the political Left ... but Leftwing ideology are themselves abuses, corruptions and debasement of humanity. In turning towards men and their institutions rather than to the Lord they ultimately could be nothing else and only time was needed for them to become as bad as the ideology is helping people to be now and only a little more time will be needed for these ideas to help make men become as bad as bad can possibly be ... as bad as the men described in the Revelation in fact.
You kidding? Even the Commies wouldn’t have gone for this transgender nonsense. We’re breaking entirely new ground.
A more encompassing program than Hitler’s — Preparing youth to give their allegiance to the coming Antichrist and all ungodliness.
....but...it is a disaster already!
Trump can do only so much.
Betsy Duvos was a huge supporter of common core. That says it all.
The difference between a Marxist and a Cultural Marxist (or rather those the Cultural Marxists shat out) is the latter is, by design, meant to be unfit to sustain the nation, civilization and even the portion of the species that they are a part of.
Rd later.
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