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Lynch: States Can't 'Insist' a Man is a Man and a Woman is a Woman, If Person Feels Otherwise
CNS ^ | May 10, 2016 | Susan Jones

Posted on 05/10/2016 4:22:44 PM PDT by xzins

The U.S. Justice Department is putting the feelings of transgenders -- men who think they are women and women who think they are men -- above the privacy rights of the vast majority of people who don't contest the biological facts of who they actually are.

"And what we must not do, what we must never do, is turn on our neighbors, our family members, our fellow Americans for something that they cannot control and deny what makes them human," Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Monday.

"[N]one of us can stand by when a state enters the business of legislating identity and insists that a person pretend to be something or someone that they are not."

But Lynch was referring to people who, in fact, are pretending to be something that -- biologically -- they are not. A man "identifying" as a woman is not a biological woman. And likewise, a woman "identifying" as a man is not a biological man. Until now, that is, when the federal government has determined that biological facts matter less than wishes and feelings.

Lynch announced a federal civil rights lawsuit against North Carolina because of the state's new law (HB-2), which requires transgender people in public facilities to use the restrooms consistent with their sex "as noted at birth," rather than the restrooms that fit their "gender identity."

"We are seeking a court order declaring HB-2's restroom restriction impermissibly discriminatory, as well as a statewide bar on its enforcement," Lynch announced. She said the Justice Department also retains the option of "curtailing federal funding to the North Carolina Department of Public Safety and the University of North Carolina as this case proceeds."

This came hours after North Carolina sued the Justice Department "for their radical reinterpretation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which would prevent plaintiffs from protecting the bodily privacy rights of state employees while accommodating the needs of transgendered state employees."

Lynch accused North Carolina and its leaders of creating "state-sponsored discrimination against transgender individuals, who simply seek to engage in the most private of functions in a place of safety and security, a right taken for granted by most of us."

(Much of the outcry over this issue comes from people who are not confused about their gender "as noted at birth," and who also "simply seek to engage in the most private of functions in a place of safety and security." Many women, in particular, object to sharing restrooms with men who supposedly "identify" as women.)

Lynch said the federal civil rights lawsuit "is about a great deal more than bathrooms."

She even invoked the nation's "founding ideals," although it's unlikely that the nation's Founders ever envisioned the concept of "gender identity" as being open to interpretation.

In fact, the law invoked by Lynch -- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- does not explicitly include gender identity in its list of protected bases. It bars discrimination on the basis of "sex," a term that has been stretched over the years to include gender identity.

"This is about the dignity and the respect that we accord our fellow citizens and the laws that we as a people and as a country have enacted to protect them, indeed, to protect all of us," Lynch said on Monday.

"And it's about the founding ideals that have led to this country haltingly, but inexorably, in the direction of fairness, inclusion, and equality for all Americans."

Lynch said North Carolina's "discriminatory" response to transgenders is no different than discrimination against blacks and homosexuals.

"Now, some of these responses reflect a recognizably human fear of the unknown and a discomfort with the uncertainty of change. But this is not a time to act out of fear. This is a time to summon our national virtues of inclusivity, of diversity, of compassion and open- mindedness.

"And what we must not do, what we must never do is turn on our neighbors, our family members, our fellow Americans for something that they cannot control and deny what makes them human.

"And this is why none of us can stand by when a state enters the business of legislating identity and insists that a person pretend to be something or someone that they are not or invents a problem that does not exist as a pretext for discrimination and harassment."

Addressing her fellow North Carolinians, Lynch refuted those who say the bathroom law protects vulnerable populations (children and women) from harm (sexual predators posing as transgenders to get into the ladies' room).

"That is just not the case," she insisted. "Instead, what this law does is inflict further indignity on a population that has already suffered far more than its fair share.

"This law provides no benefit to society, and all it does is harm innocent Americans. And instead of turning away from our neighbors, our friends, and our colleagues, let us instead learn from our history and avoid repeating the mistakes of our past."


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
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To: xzins
The theater of the absurd, known as the Obama Administration, continues

Just when you thought it could not get worse, it does!

They have given themselves over to a reprobate mind.

They make up their own truth

Trump is getting more support by the day.

121 posted on 05/11/2016 5:48:25 AM PDT by Dustoff45 (Make a new Declaration of Dependence on our constitution.)
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To: Dustoff45

See post 35. Vic has some good thoughts.


122 posted on 05/11/2016 6:00:52 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: xzins

These people need to meet God.

I highly recommend the remote connection.

My wife has a T-shirt that says “Prayer is the original wireless connection”.


123 posted on 05/11/2016 6:09:54 AM PDT by MortMan (Let's call the push for amnesty what it is: Pedrophilia.)
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To: xzins

This is the ultimate example of liberals believing thoughts are reality. Your feelings trump biological reality.


124 posted on 05/11/2016 6:21:49 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: MortMan
“Prayer is the original wireless connection”.

I got my own hot spot. Great reminder

125 posted on 05/11/2016 6:24:28 AM PDT by Dustoff45 (Make a new Declaration of Dependence on our constitution.)
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To: xzins

I am of the opinion that the states need to start reporting gays and transgenders to the NCIS data base as being mentally ill.


126 posted on 05/11/2016 6:51:21 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: Dustoff45

This all is merely a distraction to cover up something else in the works we don’t know about.

Besides what does it matter? If obozo can think he is a world leader instead of loser why can’t I think I am a horse?


127 posted on 05/11/2016 6:56:07 AM PDT by oldasrocks (They should lock all of you up and only let out us properly medicated people.)
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To: xzins

If I think and feel that I am the President of the United States, then I should have every right to jump the White House fence and go right on into my home.

Who are these hypocrites to deny me my identity?


128 posted on 05/11/2016 12:37:19 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: P-Marlowe

Who are they to deny you your limo and front door key. :?)


129 posted on 05/11/2016 12:52:12 PM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: xzins

This is not an issue of discrimination. No one is stopping transgenders or transvestites or anyone else from going to the bathroom. They merely say, if you have a penis, go in that one, if not go in the other. If I could use photoshop, I would do a penis and no penis sign as the new rest rooms signs.


130 posted on 05/11/2016 1:01:12 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Hillary for Prison 2016.)
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To: xzins

This will mark the end of women getting sports scholarships. Guys that aren’t quite good enough to get a full athletic scholarship on a men’s team can just say they feel like a woman and get on the women’s team. And the bonus is that they can then shower with the girls. If anybody questions their attraction to the fairer sex, they can just claim to feel like a lesbian.


131 posted on 05/11/2016 3:20:03 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: morphing libertarian; xzins
If I could use photoshop, I would do a penis and no penis sign as the new rest rooms signs.

I, for one, am glad you don't know how to use photoshop.

132 posted on 05/11/2016 3:23:17 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: P-Marlowe

add my family to the list


133 posted on 05/11/2016 3:25:42 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Hillary for Prison 2016.)
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To: Soul of the South

They should be lynched.


134 posted on 05/11/2016 4:02:17 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: exDemMom

LOL! The emperor “still” has no clothes!


135 posted on 05/11/2016 9:48:47 PM PDT by Bayou City
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To: xzins
Lynch: States Can't 'Insist' a Man is a Man and a Woman is a Woman, If Person Feels Otherwise


https://youtu.be/755f0iUuJY0

136 posted on 05/12/2016 2:16:17 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: VanDeKoik
And millions of young boys chose to “feel like a girl”, and got their dreams of watching girls in the gym locker room, come true.

In my day; it was just "feel a girl"!

137 posted on 05/12/2016 2:19:30 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Salvation
How about “I judge that Loretta Lynch is a cockroach?

If I were a cockroach; SOMEbody would get sued for slander!

138 posted on 05/12/2016 2:21:11 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: xzins
If the government can get us to cave on reality, then they can order us at will to do anything.

I remember when BUSSING first appeared on the scene.

139 posted on 05/12/2016 2:22:32 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

The Feds, however, apparently have no limit to what they can force on people.

http://www.legendsofamerica.com/na-navajolongwalk.html

Ya think??


140 posted on 05/12/2016 2:25:40 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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