Posted on 03/24/2016 7:48:06 AM PDT by reaganaut1
North Carolina legislators, in a whirlwind special session on Wednesday, passed a wide-ranging bill barring transgender people from bathrooms and locker rooms that do not match the gender on their birth certificates.
Republicans unanimously supported the bill, while in the Senate, Democrats walked out in protest. This is a direct affront to equality, civil rights and local autonomy, the Senate Democratic leader, Dan Blue, said in a statement.
North Carolinas governor, Pat McCrory, a Republican, signed the bill late Wednesday night.
The session, which was abruptly convened by Republican lawmakers on Tuesday, came in response to an antidiscrimination ordinance approved by the states largest city, Charlotte, last month. That ordinance provided protections based on sexual orientation, gender expression and gender identity, including letting transgender people use the public bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity, not gender at birth.
The state bill, put together so quickly that many lawmakers had not seen it before it was introduced Wednesday morning, specifically bars people in North Carolina from using bathrooms that do not match their birth gender, and goes further to prohibit municipalities from creating their own antidiscrimination policies. Instead, it creates a statewide antidiscrimination policy one that does not mention gay and transgender people. The bill also prohibits local governments from raising minimum wage levels above the state level something a number of cities in other states have done.
Whether to allow transgender people access to bathrooms based on gender identity has touched off a national debate, and actions in recent weeks had appeared to turn in favor of that access. Earlier this month, South Dakotas Republican governor vetoed a bill banning access. A similar bill failed in Tennessee this week.
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Common sense prevails!
The New York Times jumped the shark many years ago.
What will their next headline be? Murderers to be held accountable for killing!
A grown man, with a beard, wearing men’s clothes, was supposed to just be able to walk into the women’s restroom because that’s how he “feels”?
How did these idiots think they were going to be able to judge if he was telling the truth, WHEN YOU CAN EVEN JUDGE THE PERV FOR DOING IT!?
to tell u the truth, NC has always had common sense
What about the queers who’ve had a chopitoffame or the lezboes with the addadicktome?
Romans chapter one
It’s very surreal that this is even a topic of discussion, wether society at large is supposed to bend and entertain the delusions of a few who live in a world of make believe.
Be on the lookout for a big white rabbit with a pocket watch ...
This resulted from the City of Charlotte passing an ordinance requiring businesses to recognize the “right” of access from transgender people to choose which bathroom they would use- in effect forcing businesses to provide the accomodation.
The “push” for the city ordnance came from a group— which it turns out was headed by registered child sex offender (kid you not)... who was, uh, outed. Families, schools, teachers, parents, churches black and white.. all reacted for the potential for sexual offense against minors by these “self-selecting” sexual orientation ordinances. No “local option” on discrimination laws, and btw, on minimum wage. It would also cover... sanctuary cities... so this is really freaking out the Left.
Sheer utter lunacy. And the libs are calling this “regressive”.
Use a bathroom based on what someone “feels” is their gender identity..... not their actual gender from birth.
So, a cross dressing pedophile “female” could enter a bathroom, and assault a little boy, who might think he was a woman and therefore... less suspicious.
The point made in all the hearings is just how this opened up the world for sexual predators of every stripe.... against children... let alone adults.
I got into it with a lib guest on a talk show yesterday.
The lib claimed that the radio host and likely me and others had been using bathrooms with trannys and didn’t know it.
My retort was ‘then why the need for an ordinance?’.
‘The trannys want to flaunt it and we are powerless to stop it.’
That is, denying men access to bathrooms used by women and girls.
“Common sense prevails!”
But not in Charolotte! Even in places like NC where overall, human decency still preavails, NC’a biggest city is the same sort of $hit hole that is SF, NYC, Baltimore, Chicago, etc. Good for the NC legislature! Glad they are majority Republicans. Maybe there is a glimmer of hope for the GOP.
Words have a gender, people have a sex and it is biologically determined.
Would you want your 13 year daughter sharing a locker room with a 14 year old boy whose nitwit parents have raised as a girl especially when he still has an intact penis?
Kinda...
If the law specifically limits the choice to "birth gender", it does present a small quandary for those who actually have undergone surgery and therapy to alter their appearance and equipment, if they haven't had their birth certificate changed (if that's even possible).
I would propose that single-sex bathrooms be reserved for those who have the sex-appropriate genitalia, and those who suffer from the delusion that they are other than what they are can use single-person unisex bathrooms, if available (and I wouldn't make the unisex bathrooms a requirement).
JMHO.
I’ve actually seen unisex bathrooms described as “discriminatory” by the gender-bending crowd. Which just goes to show that the real agenda here is to flaunt their perversion.
In understand their agenda.
Perversity draped in insanity is an ugly thing.
Love your tagline, and I think we have contemplated that advice long enough! ;-P
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