Posted on 05/11/2016 9:04:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
What if a state department of motor vehicles or a public school insisted that only biological females could use the restroom set aside for females and that biological males had to use the restroom set aside for males?
Would that be a rational policy? Would it be just?
The U.S. Justice Department is now arguing in federal court that such a policy wrongfully discriminates against people whose "gender identity" does not "align" with their biological sex.
The department filed suit on Monday against the State of North Carolina.
At issue is the law North Carolina enacted this year that states: "Public agencies shall require every multiple occupancy bathroom or changing facility to be designated for and only used by persons based on their biological sex."
The law says: "A multiple occupancy bathroom or changing facility may include, but is not limited to, a restroom, locker room, changing room, or shower room."
It defines "biological sex" as the "physical condition of being male or female, which is stated on a person's birth certificate."
In its legal complaint against North Carolina, the Justice Department contested the state's definition of a person's sex and offered an alternative definition.
"An individual's 'sex' consists of multiple factors, which may not always be in alignment," the department said in the complaint.
The complaint then cited various biological factors that might help determine a person's sex, but it capped the list with "gender identity, which is an individual's internal sense of being male or female."
"For individuals who have aspects of their sex that are not in alignment, the person's gender identity is the primary factor in terms of establishing that person's sex," the Justice Department told the court.
Therefore, according to the Justice Department's logic, a person who is biologically male but claims a female "gender identity" must be treated as a female by state governments and schools that receive federal funding.
And that means, according to the Justice Department's logic, that state agencies and schools must allow a person who is biologically male, but who claims a female "gender identity," to use the female facilities.
What about the rights of persons who are biologically female, who identify as female, and who do not want to use the same facilities as biological males?
They do not factor into the Justice Department's argument.
Ultimately, this argument is not only about what is and is not true, but what government may and may not do.
This nation was founded on the correct belief -- even if it did not always live up to it -- that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights and that the basic purpose of government is to protect those rights. The United States justified its independence with an appeal to the Laws of Nature and Nature's God.
But now, progressively, our nation is being ripped loose from its mooring in natural law.
Forty-three years ago, seven members of the Supreme Court declared a "right" to kill an unborn child. Since then, tens of millions of babies have been aborted.
A year ago, five members of the Supreme Court declared a "right" for two people of the same sex to marry. Were there such a right, which there is not, it would mean children do not have a right to a mother -- or a father.
Currently, an eight-member Supreme Court is weighing whether the government can force Christians to act against their faith and cooperate in the distribution of abortifacient drugs that take innocent lives. Thus, could the freedom of conscience be curtailed in the pursuit of further diminishing the right to life.
If the case the Justice Department filed in North Carolina this week makes it to the Supreme Court, the underlying question before the court may be, as it is in the Justice Department's complaint: What is a man and what is a woman?
The laws of nature and nature's God answered that question a long time ago. But President Obama's Justice Department has a different opinion.
I’m sure Anthony Kennedy is just itching for his shot at that.
It’s time for the people to redefine the courts.
Great, now Title 9 is a mute point, all sports will be the same sex.
High-school sports will only need one team, because everyone can play if they can make the team. One sex, one team, one shower-room!
If you are thinking about sitting it out in November, just imagine who Hillary’s SC pick will be.
I feel like I'm living in a Kafka novel.
Here is where this leads...
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God’s definition comes in first:
Genesis 2
18 Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
19 So out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for the man there was not found a helper fit for him.
21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh;
22 and the rib which the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
23 Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”
24 Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh.
25 And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.
I feel like I'm living in a Kafka novel.
So, how many are there?
ERA via backdoor... this is probably what the bathroom warriors really dread most.
Some people are so open minded that their brains fall on the floor.
This would probably be better snickered at than flared at in a huge outrage.
“The concept of there being only two sexes, male and female, is a social convention and is not a biological reality or a scientific reality.”
You must not have been in the same locker rooms I’ve been in. Or owned the same dogs and horses I’ve owned. With rare exceptions due to genetic problems, there are two sexes. One would be amazed at how few male animals will accept getting a penis stuck up their rumps, or how many female animals substitute being licked by another female.
“So, how many are there?”
Beginning with the broader classes you can start with:
1. chromosomal or genetic sex;
2. Endocrinological or phenotypic sex
3. Gonadal sex
4. Hormonal sex
5. Morphological sex
6. Nuclear sex
Each of the above major classes include multiple sub-classes, some of which have a presently unknown number of genetic variations.
You see it already. Bruce Jenner is woman of the year, Obama celebrates mothers of any gender, etc. It will get worse.
What happens, for example, in a divorce situation when a man declares he feels he is a woman? Does he get the same consideration as a biological woman does? If not, is it discrimination? But then why isn't it discrimination if he doesn't declare he's a woman and his wife gets that consideration? Maybe things like alimony and custody will just get decided based not on gender but on some mathematical formula to avoid such considerations. That will inevitably result in less for the actual female.
What about an athlete who claims Title IX coverage because he identifies as a woman even though he's bigger, stronger, and presents as a man? How can they deny him? who needs all the protests that would pop up? And so one less actual woman gets a scholarship. And the women athletes who do get through find themselves competing against men and losing. A lot.
You see, women get certain written and unwritten privileges in such cases and they will get tested and eroded. Will that be good for women? I say they will regret it when it happens. Time will tell.
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And some corruptions of those considered illness.
Liberal ‘judges’ are filth...
Who gives a damn what they come up with?
We need to have lawyers and legislators right behind these liberal pedophile types and undo their crap as soon as the in is dry.
How does that work for jails and prisons as well. They have separate prisons for a reason. Are they now going to allow cross dressing men into women’s prisons? How many men will claim they are really women just to stay out of the more dangerous male prisons. The unintended consequences from going down that dangerous and stupid road boggle the mind. The world is insane and needs shock therapy.
The basic purpose of life is to procreate before death.
It requires 2 sexes for humans to procreate. Any human who does not benefit procreation of the species is unneeded.
Nature would take care of these abominations and cull them, but liberals promote them.
If you want to argue a social convention asserting there are but two typical sexes among humans, then by all means do so with an honest acknowledgement of the biological reality in which “biological sex” encompasses far more than just two types of sex. Just don’t lie to yourself and to other people falsely claiming there are only two biological sexes. There are not just two biological sexes and there never have been.
It appears from your comment that you failed to learn elementary sex facts from your ownership of those dogs and horses. In our own experience with producing cattle, hogs, horses, mules, dogs, cats, chickens, turkey, Guinea, Peacock, fancy pigeons, corn, sorghum, wheat, rye, barley, soybeans, cotton, tobacco, peaches, pears, cherries, blackberries, tomatoes, potatoes, sweet potatoes, Swiss chard, spinach, pole beans, lettuce, radish, cucumber, zuchinni, squash, watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew, Crenshaw melon, oranges, lemons, grapefruit, avocado, plums, thyme, oregano, marjoram, mint, onions, chives, garlic, dozens of hybrid and species flowers, and our own cross-breed Bearded Iris and Beardless Iris, we have observed a variety of variations in the sexes and sexual behavior of those organisms. If a person had to judge from your comments, it appears you are willfully remaining ignorant in defiance of reality. You are simply acting out in boorish ignorance and stupidity.
It’s the boys in the highschool girls locker rooms that are
causing the issue to be pushed. It’s the kids...hence the laws and thus the governmental over-reach!
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