Posted on 02/02/2021 11:12:59 AM PST by Kaslin
This is not only about transgendering schools. It is about rejecting an identity politics regime that is at war with our American constitutional government and the self-governing way of life it requires.
The American Civil Liberties Union is threatening to sue Montana if it passes a bill that would require publicly funded education institutions to designate sports teams according to participants’ sex. The “Save Women’s Sports Act” would allow for male, female, and coed teams, but not for males to participate on teams designated for females.
On the basis of Joe Biden’s executive order demanding that all publicly funded institutions transgender all sex-based activities and facilities, and the Supreme Court’s Bostock v. Clayton County decision, both the Montana chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and the national organization promised to sue Montana if it passes any law recognizing that men and women are different. Bostock claims the word “sex” also means “gender identity” in federal law forbidding discrimination based on sex, although the concept of gender identity did not exist when the law was passed and it is logically incompatible with the reality of sex.
The Montana House passed the bill 61-38 on Jan. 27, and sent it to the state Senate. Writer Abigail Shrier highlighted the ACLU threat to Montana on Twitter.
The Montana ACLU chapter also tweeted (HB112 is the Save Women’s Sports Act):
ACLU national staff lawyer Chase Strangio, who is transgender, also tweeted threats against the Montana legislature’s right to make laws on behalf of the people who elect them instead of laws that please unelected, out-of-state transgender activists:
Republican state legislators should realize what a huge boon it is for them to be cast as the only thing standing between transgender totalitarians like the national ACLU and the voters of Montana. This is an excellent opportunity for them to fundraise and push Montana, long a purple state, into redder territory for years to come. Opposition to transgenderism is a bipartisan wedge issue that plays well for Republicans who are willing to earn more voters and stronger voter loyalty by effectively standing for basic human rights and sexual sanity.
In Montana, the majority of even Democrat voters don’t buy the ridiculous idea that men and women are fair sports competitors, or that a man can turn into a woman. Most Montana Democrats vote blue because they are blue-collar, not for ridiculous white-collar leftist ideology to infect their lives and ruin their communities’ after-school fun.
This is not a theoretical or small-time debate even if almost no transgender males join female sports teams, or if the ones who do rarely beat that many women. It is about getting people to kiss the ring and pretend they believe what they know is false. It is about subjugating people’s understanding of reality to prepare society for increased totalitarianism.
Every single one of us needs to understand the stakes here are not at all about a few trans kids playing on opposite-sex sports teams, or showering next to kids of the opposite sex somewhere. The obvious reality that men and women are different in meaningful ways that require us to treat them differently in some contexts is a hill to stake a claim on and refuse to budge no matter the outcome. This is a cultural sanity touchstone and human rights issue.
As Ryan Anderson points out, “Children feeling discomfort with their bodies shouldn’t be told the lie that they’re ‘trapped in the wrong body,’ nor should adults pump them full of puberty-blocking drugs and cross-sex hormones.” If decent people and public officials, such as Bostock author Justice Neil Gorsuch and Senate Republicans, are unable to successfully defend and advance obvious truths like these to end publicly funded child mutilation, our civilization is over.
The education of the young is also an existential challenge for a nation, and Americans have let the left control it for far too long. Here’s a strategic gameplan for using the Biden administration’s overreach on this issue as an opportunity to win more voters to the right and restructure U.S. public education to function less as leftist recruiting and indoctrination centers.
The only way any president can claim to demand that public schools affirm an obvious lie is that public schools get about 10 cents of every dollar they spend through the federal Every Student Succeeds Act, the successor to No Child Left Behind. Without this money, no president could impose insane ideas on American schools, whether the idea is transgender showers, critical race theory, anti-American history, or Common Core.
So congressional Republicans need to pledge to voters that if they ever regain Congress they will pass the A-PLUS Act (or something even stronger) to block-grant states’ education funds back to them with no federal strings attached. In the meantime, state legislatures should follow this general strategy to end any president’s ability to humiliate their citizens by forcing them to pretend men and women are interchangeable. Here’s one way state legislatures can do that.
1. Commission a study on federal funding. Any fair study will find that federal funds cost more than they bring in, in compliance, funding federal lobbyists’ priorities instead of local priorities, memberships in public-private organizations that exist to launder federal funds, reorienting state money from state priorities to federal priorities, etc.
2. Use the results of the study to reject federal education funding. If legislators have balls, they should also refuse to collect the taxes from state residents that fund the U.S. Department of Education (based on the annual ESSA funding formulas). Let the feds come get their extortion money on their own. Your state doesn’t have to assist with mafia government.
3. Do a complete overhaul of the state education bureaucracy and funding to reorient it towards local needs. Axe all state, regional, and local bureaucracies whose purpose is to launder federal money and promote compliance with federal priorities.
4. Investigate the needs of poor and special-needs children and whether they are being met with the state funds allocated to them. You will find that they are not. As a result, sponsor and pass education savings accounts for these children. Expand these accounts to all children in the state on the grounds that no public school should be allowed to hold children hostage to ideology their parents don’t want.
Expect massive resistance from these bureaucracies and their allies like unions and administrators’ groups. Prepare to disregard their pressure and take your case to the much larger and more sympathetic voters, who also cannot see any use in a bi-regional curriculum supplement planning district negotiation authority.
Your case is simple: I want the maximum dollars steered towards classrooms. That’s children and teachers. Only half of education dollars right now actually go to children. I want that amount up to at least 75 percent. The federal government not only uses the money it gives to force boys into girls’ showers, its rules actually take more state money from classrooms and give it to bureaucrats, so teachers are underpaid and children don’t have the resources they need. I refuse to let that happen.
This is an easy public sell based on true facts.
Lastly, any judges who help impose transgender ideology on states against their citizens’ expressed wishes should be censured, impeached, recalled, and otherwise kicked out of office. Depending on the state, this is a job for both legislatures and citizens.
Here is a gameplan to help motivate your state legislature, local school board, state school board, local athletics organizations, and others to stand up for reality, truth, women, girls, boys, and men. Montana should not be the only state legislature passing this kind of law. They all should. Every single school district and college should be pressured to not allow rapey situations like boys cosleeping with girls and in their showers.
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In a funny irony, feminists are completely against trans “girls” in girls sports. The want female sports to remain biologically female. Has the LGBQ group going nuts they don’t support them in this agenda.
Girls should just refuse to run against them
The individuals should have their boys flood the schools as transgendered athletes to obtain the female scholarship money.
That's the only way they will learn
In the olden days a group of fathers would take the offender out behind the barn and do a number on him, usually putting the offender in the hospital.
There are several family histories about this happening to perverts in the 1930s and 1940s.
Any attempt to address this issue by voting for more GOPee politicians and expecting them to ever do the right thing, even if elected given the rigged sucker’s game that elections have become, is a level of insanity that is stupifying. The only path forward from this catastrophe we now suffer under is nullification, non-compliance, and secession.
Animals purge defective members of their species. We are “above that”, but I don’t think it means we have to agree with this tranny BS. I, for one, will not comply.
“Scientifically, there is no such a thing” as transgendered, Dr. Berger explained. “Therefore anyone who actually truly believes that notion is by definition deluded, psychotic.
What they really should do is eliminate government’s role in education at all levels. Tell the public schools they are now private and will have to offer a product parents and students want, and parents will get to spend their property tax money on whatever kind of education they want for their kids. Poor kids would get vouchers.
Yeah, I know it won’t happen, but I can dream, right?
We may have to drop the terms male, female, and coed teams. Go with XY, XX, and ANY for sports teams. Then it’s not about “gender” (and no one actually cares about gender in any case), so they can stop trying to force us to care.
Of course, it was never about gender. It’s all about the narrative, and it’s a particularly destructive narrative in this case.
Grow a beard, put on plaid, walk into the ladies teachers restroom and belt out:
“I’m a lumberjack and I’m okay!”
In a deep bass voice.
To me, the answer is stunningly simple. Students with XX chromosomes are all on one team, students with XY chromosomes are on another. There is no mention of sex, gender, or identity. Bathrooms, showers and changing rooms are to be labeled the same way.
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang,
reload,
bang, bang, bang, bang.
I get so sick of this being THE issue, the figurative Alamo. Is it bad? Yes, horrible. Yet it is but the festering of the putrid infection of the entire sexual deviant agenda. Do we think we can win on “women’s sports/restrooms” and declare some type of victory? The hordes of Santa Anna’s army still weight outside the walls to slaughter us.
We have to defeat it all, or none of it.
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