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To: chris37
"If a transgender can use any bathroom they choose, why can’t she? What makes them better than her?"

The problem is, a male who identifies as a male or a female who identifies as a female has to use the bathroom of their gender. Now if you are a male identifying as a female you can use the women's bathroom. If you are a female identifying as a male, you can use the men's room.

She should have said she identified as a male, then if they kicked her out she could sue for discrimination.

It's all crazy. This country is literally going to pot.

50 posted on 05/13/2016 9:09:06 PM PDT by Spunky (We're doomed I tell you. We are doomed! Friday the 13th, 2016)
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To: Spunky

“She should have said she identified as a male, then if they kicked her out she could sue for discrimination.”

This is precisely my point.

The federal government is trying to establish a very particular subset of the population as above the laws that everyone else has to obey.

That is a violation of the Equal Protection Clause.

“The meaning of the Equal Protection Clause has been the subject of much debate, and inspired the well-known phrase “Equal Justice Under Law”. This clause was the basis for Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the Supreme Court decision that helped to dismantle racial segregation, and also the basis for many other decisions rejecting discrimination against people belonging to various groups.

The Equal Protection Clause itself applies only to state and local governments. However, the Supreme Court held in Bolling v. Sharpe (1954) that equal protection requirements apply to the federal government through the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.”

“The Equal Protection Clause is located at the end of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Protection_Clause

What the federal government is attempting to do is illegal.

You cannot favor one group by discriminating against another. It’s a two way street.

Subjecting one group of people to the law while exempting another is discrimination.


52 posted on 05/13/2016 9:54:53 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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