Posted on 05/12/2016 10:15:39 PM PDT by Strac6
The Obama administration will send a letter to every public school district in the country Friday warning them that they must allow students to use whatever bathroom and locker room corresponds to their stated gender identity, or face a federal lawsuit.
The decree, sent jointly by the Department of Justice and the Department of Education, comes just a few days after North Carolina and the federal government sued each other over the state’s recent law governing bathroom use in public buildings. It won’t be a new federal law, but will instead reflect the Obama administration’s interpretation of existing federal anti-discrimination law.
In particular, the decree is based on Title IX, the 1972 law prohibiting sex discrimination in schools that receive federal funding. While the drafters of the law may not have known it at the time, the Obama administration’s position is that the law covers discrimination based on gender identity as well as physical sex.
“A school may not require transgender students to use facilities inconsistent with their gender identity or to use individual-user facilities when other students are not required to do so,” the letter says, according to The New York Times, which obtained a copy.
Currently, federal courts have not conclusively settled whether, and to what degree, sex discrimination laws cover matters of gender identity as opposed to physical sex. But the Obama administration appears optimistic that an aggressive approach will succeed, especially after an April court ruling favored a transgender Virginia girls who sued for the right to use a boys’ bathroom.
The letter says that schools must immediately respect a student’s new gender identity as soon as it is declared by their parent or guardian. Schools are not allowed to require that a student provide a medical diagnosis to justify the change, and they also cannot require a student to legally change their gender.
To assist schools in implementing the new policy and help those made uncomfortable by it, the letter includes a 25-page document of “emerging practices,” with suggestions such as erecting privacy curtains in locker rooms for those who need extra privacy.
Obama’s new order will without a doubt enrage many Republicans who have argued that transgender bathroom policies will allow perverted men to prey upon women in bathrooms and locker rooms. A few such incidents have already occurred.
In February, for instance, a Seattle man used the city’s now transgender bathroom ordinance to enter a women’s locker room and begin stripping while young girls were using it. When confronted, he said the law gave him the right to be there, and he was never identified or arrested.
Yet another reason for private schools or, better yet, home schooling.
But Trump wants nothing to do with this issue. That's the problem. Don't expect him to even attack this insane executive decree.
The issues have always been, and remain: (1) calling things by their right name; and (2) personal privacy and sexual modesty. A "trans girl" is NOT a girl. He is still a boy. His psychological issues do not override the reality of his physical gender.
Our position is simply that boys and girls have privacy rights and that we should respect those rights. The public schools should not force boys and girls to shower and dress together. Period. And we must stand firm on the language. A "trans girl" is NOT a girl. He is a boy who wants to identify with the girls. He is still a boy. Trying to call him a girl is simply a lie.
Instead of talking endlessly about perverts and predators, we should say we can sympathize with people who have serious psychological confusions about their gender. We should treat everyone with dignity and respect. We support counseling and treatment to help people with this mental illness straighten out, as most of them eventually do. (It is reported that upwards of 90 percent of young people who go through such a phase grow out of it, which suggests treatment is the solution.) And we can agree on reasonable accommodations to provide trans people with privacy. But boys do not belong in girls' bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers, or on girls' athletic teams.
I dabble on several discussion boards in addition to FR. In my admittedly limited personal experience, not once has one of the gender-bender activists risen to defend showering together. They prefer to talk about bathrooms and say that all we need to do is put doors on the stalls. They go completely silent on showers, mostly silent on dressing rooms, and only very rarely engage on the question of athletic participation. "Perverts invading the bathrooms" is not the winning way to frame the issue. "High school boys and girls shouldn't be showering together" is a winner. "Boys shouldn't be playing on girls' sports teams" is a winner. A little message discipline is important.
I don't imagine Obama will ever be asked if Sasha and Malia shower with boys, and whether Obama would approve of this. He should be. If we had an honest press corps, he would be.
Lead by example Obama. Good one.
If Obama said he would approve of his daughters showering with boys, he would be regarded by 85 percent of the American people as an unnatural father. He should be asked the question.
Written law cannot be applied to purely imaginary states.
Another reason for home schooling or private schools. Two things the sodomite Democrats hate.
This is Sodom and Gomorrah. I will pull my kids out of school in a nanosecond.
It should only be a matter of time until girls sports teams have males identifying as girls wanting to join their teams.
The actual numbers of Trannies in the population falls within the margin of error, statistically they are ZERO....
Again, if the GOP REALLY wanted to win elections, they could crush the Dems with this sort of insanity.
Unfortunately, crying “racist” to a member of the GOP establishment is like showing a cross to a vampire....or a Democrat.
'Little Johnny likes football too much, and lately refused a school assignment to bring a photograph of himself in a dress. We're afraid he may be a Genderist.'
The president has no authority whatsoever over public schools. Those are the domain of their respective school boards or state education agencies.
Tell him to ... Well, you figure it out.
“Yes, this must be resisted, but we must not fall into the trap. Obama and the sexual revolutionaries are counting on opponents to howl about perverts in the bathrooms. In response, they will trot out a confused, mild-mannered 14 year old, and attack opponents as being driven by fear, hateful, mean-spirited, homophobic, etc. The entire phalanx of left media and interest groups will rally to this battle.”
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Spot on!
Already trotted out said “confused, mild-mannered 14 year old” on the news here in Atlanta
http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/140530653-video
It worked for Capone!
EXTORTION!!
withholding 'federal' dollars.
No; fools; they are TAXPAYER dollars!
Ah, but if State govt starts to call out the emperor has no clothes; let alone no Constitutional authority, the whole house of cards starts to tumble.
The DoEd says....Their is no authority for the DoEd
We’ll pull funding...We’ll stop sending $$ to D.C.
Sooner or later, one will have to give, or the Peoples eyes begin to open. Govt does not like when the People are in the know/aware.
Dear Comrade Chairman FlexObumble,
No Civil War for YOU!
Go play with your wherever for another 6 months.
Regards,
HLPhat
Kill it.
I may not be the one napping here ...
Will this apply to all the Arabic language (Islamic) charter schools that have sprung up all across the country?
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