I am trying to understand this issue, but it’s escaping me … so far.
The Obama administration is going to send out a “directive” to public school systems throughout the country advising them against discriminating against “transgender” students.
It won’t have the “force of law,” according to federal officials. It will warn districts that they face being denied federal funds if they fail to comply with the directive.
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What is giving me so much grief?
It’s the “transgender” issue all by itself.
People who identify with the opposite sex should be granted access to facilities set aside for the opposite sex, say proponents of transgender rights.
So, if I hear them correctly, a man with all the requisite male body parts can use a woman’s public restroom. Same for a woman who wants to use the men’s restroom.
Simply identifying with the other gender doesn’t require them to dress appropriately, as I understand it. Am I wrong about that?
How do we know who’s truly transgender, therefore, and who, um, isn’t?
Here in Texas, the lieutenant governor weighed in on this matter by ordering the Fort Worth Independent School District superintendent, Kent Scribner, to resign because of guidelines he wrote governing the issue — in that school district.
I’ve stated already that Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick overstepped his bounds by meddling in a local issue. Scribner’s employment status should be determined exclusively by the school board that appointed him.
The federal “directive” seems to line up the same way. Have the federal courts ruled on the constitutionality of this matter? If so, then it got past me.
I’m trying to understand which rights are involved here, particularly as it pertains to individuals who haven’t yet been surgically altered to comply with their stated gender identity.
I have no issue, moreover, with those who’ve had the “gender reassignment” surgery and have been re-created into the appropriate gender. The medical procedure, by my way of thinking, removes the transgender confusion.
I’ve stated many times over many years that I don’t understand a lot of things.
This, most assuredly, is one of them.
My head hurts.