GENDER CONFUSION

The Gender Confusion Lobby has gone to the bathroom.  Why has this topic drawn so much attention?  How did it become an issue?  The media blames the North Carolina legislature.  Actually, they just reacted to a policy coming out of Charlotte saying transgender people should be permitted to use restrooms according to their perceived gender instead of their apparent (biological) gender.  The state was just reacting with what they believe is a common sense, rational solution to a problem thrown in their lap.  Supposedly, some transgender people are uncomfortable using facilities according to their apparent gender because they, at times, feel more like another gender.  So, to accommodate their discomfort, they want to switch bathrooms.  The blowback has surprised everyone.  It turns out that many people don’t want people walking into the bathroom, locker room, or shower who are biologically of a different gender.  I understand that experience.  Some decades ago, our rugby team finished a game at the Univ. of Illinois and headed to the men’s locker room.  Three young ladies followed us into the room.  I escorted them out knowing nothing good would come from such a situation for us, or them, or the University.

Most of the objections seem to center on male predators taking advantage of young girls and putting the girls in a dangerous situation.  That’s a real problem.  But, there are plenty of adult men and women who are very “uncomfortable” using a restroom when someone of an apparent opposite gender walks in.  I’m one of those people.  We are being told by the Gender Confusion Lobby to “get over it”.  Ain’t going to happen.  Consider:

A very generous estimate of the number of “transgender” people in the U.S. is two tenths of one percent.  Only a small percent of them are so uncomfortable choosing a bathroom that it is a significant problem.  The PC crowd want the 99.8 percent to surrender their comfort to accommodate the comfort of a very tiny group.

Dr. Keith Ablow is a psychiatrist and medical advisor for a major network.  He says, “The bathroom debate is really a debate about the fundamental way we Americans will define any truth-whether as something deeply felt by an individual, or something scientifically demonstrable and verifiable.  If we believe that transgender individuals can use the restrooms they choose, one could argue that many of our cultural institutions must flex away from fact.  And one could argue that cultural chaos will result.  The slippery slope …could have us embracing what is asserted, rather than what is evidenced scientifically, or is historically known to be fact.”  His point is that this could lead to a collapse of the judicial system which has been based on fact, not on assertion.  Once we open the door for assertion to trump fact, you can imagine the absurd judgments that would follow.

The  American College of Pediatricians reported  (March of 2016) in “Gender Ideology Harms Children” that "Human sexuality is an objective biological binary trait: “XY” and “XX” are genetic markers of health- not genetic markers of a disorder.”  “A person’s belief that he or she is something they are not is, at best, a sign of confused thinking.” “98 percent of gender confused boys and 88 percent of gender confused girls eventually accept their biological sex after naturally passing through puberty.”  “Conditioning children into believing that a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex in normal and healthful is child abuse.”

How could this debate about a problem that almost never happens and which can be simply solved with common sense, become something that involves state and national administrations, major corporations, the NFL, celebrities, schools, etc..  The answer is that the Gender Confusion Lobby, the offspring of the Gay Lobby, has long had as its goal to eliminate gender distinctions.  They see gender distinction as an evil that must be crushed because it leads to inequality and injustice.  It makes no difference to them that science clearly states that there are natural gender distinctions, that multitudes will unnecessarily be endangered, and accommodation to their demands will be very costly.  They want what they want and nobody has successfully opposed them in the past and nobody will because of the fear of their iron boot.