“Girls will be boys and boys will be girls, it’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world.”- “Lola” by the Kinks
Presaging things to come, the Chicago public school system — in compliance with the Department of Justice — recently announced that such facilities as school lavatories and locker rooms will be fully accessible to students based not on their gender, but on their chosen gender.
According to the compliance order, you don’t need to physically change your gender or appearance through surgery, hormone treatments or the like. You only need to self-identify as a transgender, or simply express that you are transgender. So if you were born a boy with all of the physical attributes bestowed on boys by Mother Nature, yet you say you are a girl, you can undress in front of actual girls in the girl’s locker room, and, legally anyway, watch them undress in front of you.
How did it come to this? In solidarity with the LGTB movement, the Obama Justice Department reinterpreted the clear language in Title IX banning “sex discrimination” in federally funded education programs to mean “gender identity discrimination.” So a law passed 40 years ago that was intended to eliminate sexism in education, and has been mostly used to ensure that women’s sports programs in schools are funded on an equal, or at least pro-rata basis with men’s sports, has been reinterpreted to mean girls and boys are to share locker rooms, bathrooms and showers, provided the boys self-identify as girls, and vice versa. Any school that denies transgender students unfettered access to the bathrooms, locker rooms and showers of their choice could lose millions in federal education funding.
On that note, Attorney General Loretta Lynch recently filed a lawsuit against North Carolina for failing to repeal or revise its law requiring transgender people to use public bathrooms in accordance with their gender at birth. Citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX, Lynch actually compared North Carolina’s law to post-Civil War “Jim Crow laws” and — her exact words — “the fierce and widespread resistance to Brown v. Board of Education.”
In other words, ignoring a reality going back to Adam and Eve, according to America’s chief law enforcement officer, a law recognizing that the biological gender differences between men and women entitle them to sexual privacy from the infinitesimally small percentage of the American population who are gender-confused — such a law evokes the bygone days when nearly 15 percent of the American population was discriminated against because of the color of their skin.
To his credit, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory is counter-suing the Justice Department, citing in addition to legal precedent, Webster’s Dictionary’s definition of the phrase “common sense.”
