Thursday, May 12, 2016

BREAKING The Obama administration will tell all public schools to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of their choice

NYT reports that the Obama administration is planning to issue a sweeping decree telling every public school district in the country to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity.

The letter to school districts that will go out Friday describing what they should do to ensure that none of their students are discriminated against, signed by officials of the Justice Department and Department of Education, does not have the force of law. But it contains an implicit threat: Schools that do not abide by the Obama administration’s interpretation of the law could face lawsuits or a loss of federal aid.

Why exactly does the federal government have to creep into every aspect of life? It's all about promotion of the bizarre and abnormal. And notice how federal aid to schools will be used as the stick of enforcement.

 -RW

3 comments:

  1. I heard this on NPR and the reporter guy asking the legal scholar about this never once asked the question of whether the federal government had the power to do this or anything else related to education. I don't remember there being anything in the Constitution about government regulating education.

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  2. The other thing they never do with these kinds of proclamations is define the term "transgender". I've read in places that to qualify as "transgender" you just need to "identify" as a particular gender. This opens the door to a whole variety of wackos who only need to claim that they "identify" as a particular gender to gain access to the facilities used by that gender. This boils down to semantics - I think if you asked the average person on the street what they thought "transgender" meant they would say it is someone who has undergone a sex-change operation and is taking the hormones, etc... In other words, someone who has done something to change his/her gender besides just feeling like they "identify" as that gender at that particular moment in time. As it is, with such a loose definition of transgender we'll have all kinds of creeps going into any bathroom, locker room, or shower that they want to. Terrible...

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    1. there you go again Rapheal with your labeling and stereotyping :)

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