Well, not exactly, but I can’t help but believe that one of “the usual suspects” will put some of that spin on this news story …
COEUR D’ALENE – Police in the Lake City are investigating a reported rape on North Idaho College’s campus involving a cross-dressing man who attacked a student in a bathroom.
Coeur d’Alene police are not commenting on their investigation at this point only to say they do not feel students are not in danger because the victim said she knew her attacker.
NIC student Janea Kelso heard about the alleged rape from a friend who got an emergency alert on her phone.
“It’s scary considering this is a small school,” Kelso said.
The text message said a man dressed as a woman was hiding in the first floor bathroom of the Meyer Health and Science Building and raped a woman last Friday. Kelso says teachers warned female students to be careful.
“They just said be careful when leaving class go in buddy system,” she said.
The victim told police she knows the rapist, who is described as being white with brown hair and is clean shaven. The attacker is 48-years-old and is not an NIC student. Police are not releasing the man’s name and no one has been arrested
NIC administrators notified students of the attack and said security officers are watching for suspicious people but they are not adding additional patrols.
“We have no indication since this was according to police someone known to her, we don’t believe nor does our security or police that is someone looking for targets at this time but still urging everyone to be vigilant,” NIC vice president John Martin said.
Police have declined comment on the case but did say that a rapist is not roaming the streets.
A man undergoes the mutilative procedure known as “gender-reassignment surgery” and then wins the women’s division of golf’s premier long drive championship.
There was a time when a sexual identity crisis was thought a problem of adolescence and only discussed in psychology journals.But now our whole civilization is experiencing one, as we’ve gone from confusion about the roles of the sexes, to a battle of the sexes, to a battle about how significant the category of “sex” actually is, to subordinating it to “gender,” and finally to a battle of the “genders.”
Such a battle has just played out as 55-year-old Lana Lawless (an assumed name), a man who used to be a 245-pound SWAT cop for the city of Rialto, California, has just won the women’s division of the RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship.
Allowing such individuals to compete in women’s athletic contests is nothing new.It dates back to 1977, when Renee Richards (formerly Dr. Richard Raskind) won a court battle that allowed him to compete on the women’s tennis circuit.Now, three decades later, many sporting organizations – including the International Olympic Committee – have rules in place allowing mutilated men to compete alongside women.In other words, we went from altar boys to altered boys in just a couple of generations.
The real problem, however, is that we have an altered society, one thoroughly confused about so many things, not the least of which is the nature of the sexes.
Personally, I don’t refer to any of these altered men as “she.”This is mainly because you cannot change your sex any more than you can your species, and I don’t subscribe to the concept of “gender.”Believe it or not, many altered-men activists agree with me; they will say that while “sex” is inborn, “gender” is chosen.Why do you think the preferred labels today are not “transsexual” and “sex-change operation” but “transgendered” and “gender-reassignment surgery?These terms are part of a social-engineering scheme to alter society’s thinking.They reflect the belief that people have gender (it originally referred only to words) and that it can be whatever your feelings dictate.This is why I won’t use the word gender when referring to people any more than “she” when referring to Lawless. When we use these elements of the lexicon of the left, we unwittingly acknowledge that the concepts they represent are valid.
In other words, there cannot be gender-reassignment surgery because unless “gender” is synonymous with “sex,” it’s not a quality people possess.And there cannot be a sex-change operation because one cannot change his sex.As soon as we deviate from this principle, the form of our argument negates its substance and we help legitimize that against which we fight.
Yet critics tell me I’m uneducated on the matter, that I just don’t understand the science.My response is that they don’t understand the philosophy, without which they can’t interpret the science.
What does it mean to be a man or a woman?Is it just a matter of superficial qualities?Well, good theology tells us that your sex is something existing in your very soul, but I don’t expect this to carry much Lose Weight Exercise with secularists.So instead of delving into what sex is, I’ll explore what it is not.
If a man loseWeight Exercises his genitalia in an accident, is he somehow less male?Or is he just a mutilated male? We know that a pre-pubescent boy has the same hormone balance (low estrogen levels) as a pre-pubescent girl and no male secondary sex characteristics.With his high voice and low muscle mass he is certainly less masculine than his father, but is he any less male than dad?
If that boy lost his genitalia in an accident and thus had none of the three attributes – male primary and secondary sex characteristics and an adult male hormone balance – would he be any less male?This is where critics may say that some elements of femaleness are still missing; for starters, external primary and secondary female sex characteristics would have to be created via surgery and estrogen treatments.
If this were done and the boy dressed and wore his hair like a girl, he’d certainly be able to masquerade as a female very effectively.This point is sometimes made by altered men’s advocates. But does it matter?A great imposter may be indistinguishable from the real thing, but he is no less an imposter.
I would point out that altered men still have an XY (male) chromosome configuration, and, while I won’t boil sex down to just genetics either, it’s certainly more significant than superficial qualities.After all, a boy only develops properly as one because his genes send messages for the release of testosterone in his body while in the womb.
This is where “gender” comes into play.Critics will say that the most significant factor of all is that you must feel like a member of a sex trapped in a body of the other; in other words, you may be physically male but your “gender” is female.The psychobabblers call this “gender dysphoria” – giving something an impressive medical name always lends credibility.And feelings are the ultimate arbiters of reality.
But now consider that the mental health profession has also “identified” a psychological disorder called “body dysmorphia.” Its most extreme manifestation is when a person strongly feels that a certain body part – an arm, leg, etc. – doesn’t belong on his body.He feels it’s alien to him and that he won’t be happy until it’s amputated.There are doctors willing to perform such an operation so that their patients can be “cured.”It’s a remedy prescribed after a brilliant diagnostic process: ascertain if the person truly feels that his body doesn’t conform to what he feels like on the inside.Remember, feelings are the ultimate arbiters of reality.
But here is reality: there may be a man in a psychiatric institution who feels he’s a wolf.He could have his body surgically altered so that he has fur, a tail, paws, fangs and a snout.He could then run about on all fours and howl at the moon, but he would not be a wolf.He would simply be what he is, a troubled man who needs not his body altered, but his mind.
No doubt — with the “Socialist Party” firmly back in power in this country — these folks will be meeting in the John … and making a great deal of noise.
[NY, USA] The latest on Carmen’s Place: “A controversial Astoria shelter for gay and transgender young people may be forced to shut down if it doesn’t receive a quick infusion of cash. The Rev. Louis Braxton, director of Carmen’s Place, said donations have plummeted with the tanking economy. “We’ve always been hand to mouth, with just enough to make our bills,” Braxton said. “But since the economic meltdown, we just died.”" — Shelter for youths on the brink
[OR, USA] From The Oregonian, “The counterprotesters outside City Hall in this Marion County town today significantly outnumbered the protesters who inspired them: three young women and a man from a Kansas church, here to register their disdain with the recent election of the nation’s first openly transgender mayor, Stu Rasmussen. The quartet spread out along one side of North Water Street, feet planted on American flags spread on the sidewalk and hoisting large laminated posterboards on each arm. Double-sided and easy to read from passing vehicles and local television trucks positioned half a block away, the signs offered assorted damnation — “Barack Obama = Antichrist,” “God Hates You,” “You’re Going to Hell” and “Fag Media Shame.”" — Silverton rebuffs protest of transgender mayor-elect
[USA] “According to Stryker in Queer Pulp, the “dimestore” or “pulp” novel owes its popularity to the Army’s attempts to keep the troops occupied by printing and distributing cheap, thin editions of popular and classic novels. Soldiers spread their love of the books, allowing the pulp industry new-found clout by the late ‘40s. Stryker goes on to note that the advent of the gay and lesbian novels of the ‘50s and ‘60s also owes a debt to the rise of the sci-fi novel. Like homosexual literature, tales of intergalactic travel and ghostly apparitions had been around for quite some time, but advancing technology and the prospect of real space travel propelled the genre. As more sci-fi novels featured aliens who enjoyed alternative sexual practices or genders foreign to our two-gender system, audiences become more comfortable with reading about alien love and intercourse, allowing them to view differently sexual relationships outside of the heterosexual norm of procreative sex.” — Fresh Squeeze with Pulp
[Equatorial Guinea] In soccer news, at the African Women’s Championships in Equatorial Guinea, “the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) may have filed a protest to the Confederation of African Football (CAF), over allegations that three hermaphrodites are in the Equatorial Guinea team … Nigeria had on Saturday filed a similar protest against South Africa over one of their players. The outcome of the protest is yet to be made public.” — Falcons protest alleged hermaphrodite in E’ Guinean team
[TN, USA] “The shooting death of a transgendered woman won’t stop a planned lawsuit over her February beating at the hands of police, one of her attorneys said Monday. Duanna Johnson, 43, was shot in the head at Hollywood and Staten in North Memphis late Sunday. She died at the scene. Although the Memphis Police Department identified the victim as Dwayne Johnson, attorney Murray Wells said the victim was the person he knew as Duanna.” — Transgendered abuse victim found dead
[Australia] “At the Grauniad, where noted Transphobe Julie Bindel was nominated for an award as “Journalist of the Year” by UK GLB(but not T) group STONEWALL. Named after a riot against police oppression of trans* and gays started by a Transgendered woman, to add a touch of Irony … So why does all this matter? Surely it’s just more silly sophomoric political games, people shouting at each other in the battle of the -isms, with no-one but they interested in the outcome? It matters because of this – the events I wrote about in Nothing Unusual … It matters because just as the beating of Duanna Johnson was not widely publicised in MSM, her murder will go unremarked either, even if a ballistics exam shows (purely by coincidence) a police-issue weapon was involved. It matters because if the Julie Bindels of the world are allowed to preach their poisonous Xenophobia without being called on it, then consequences such as this are inescapable.” — Today’s Battle
[USA] “New reality series Sex Change Hospital (WE tv Tuesdays, 11 pm/ET) follows patients — from retired grandfathers to construction workers, businessman and office managers — as they undergo surgery to transition from one gender to another. We caught up with Dr. Marci Bowers (formerly Mark Bowers), who has performed over 550 male-to-female sexual reassignment surgeries, to find out more about the life-changing operations at her clinic in Trinidad, Colo., the compelling docudrama and the social stigmas involved with transgender patients.” — Transgender Doctor Talks Sex Change Hospital
[USA] (Too bad certain Americans for Truth never focused on WMDs as they have on MWDs.) The latest from “Porno Pete” LaBarbera: “What will a President Obama do to protect the right to privacy of female federal workers who don’t want men wearing dresses – with male genitalia – sharing their women’s restroom?” LaBarbera said. “Will a President Obama request funds from Congress to embark on an ambitious ‘Transgender Restroom Construction Project’ to build special “trans” bathrooms in government buildings – so as not to subject female employees to sexual harassment and violations of their privacy?” — Will Federal Female Employees Be Safe from Cross-Dressing Men Using Ladies’ Restrooms in the Obama Administration?
[MD, USA] “So — a foreign guy went into the ladies fitting room with his wife and baby. That’s the story.
The letter writer, Bunny Galladora, hints that this is supposed to have something to do with our county’s new nondiscrimination law. The guy wasn’t dressed as a woman or claiming to be transgender, he was speaking a foreign language and maybe comes from a less puritanical country than ours, where men help their wives pick out clothes and watch the kid. As long as he isn’t leering at the women, exposing himself, or molesting anyone, there is no law — and never has been a law — against him being there … The WCTU lady says she was uneasy saying something to the store employee “with the new law having been passed.” Was she afraid somehow that she was going to accidentally discriminate against someone on the basis of gender identity? If there was something unusual about the man’s gender identity you would think she’d mention it. Let’s see how quickly Channel Seven gets this “challenge to the new law” on the air. And to think, they don’t like it when we call them “nuts.”" — WCTU Leader Outraged by Foreigner at Kohls, Blames New Law
[USA] “We need to start rebuilding for a fully inclusive ENDA. Start making strong alliances, start reaching out, start laying the bare strategic groundwork for the next battle a year or so from now. Let the lawyers continue to fight to overturn Prop 8, it was in some respects a red herring primarily designed to build and test a religion-based political machine, but it did serve (hopefully) as a fertile source of lessons learned and an insight as to how we need to fight the upcoming fight for our rights.” — Forward Thinking
[USA] “This statement and its supporting literature, that hypothesize sexual deviance as a cause of transsexualism, have sparked dissent among clinicians and researchers and outrage within the transgender and transsexual community [4-8] While theories around “autogynephilia” seem exceptionally impervious to contrary evidence, the controversy has raised questions about tolerance and bias in American Psychiatry– at what point do bad stereotypes preclude good science? The term “autogynephilia,” meaning “love of oneself as a woman,” was first introduced by Dr. Raymond Blanchard of the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, now known as the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto. He is currently chairman of the Paraphilias Subcommittee for the upcoming DSM-V. Blanchard stated that, “All gender dysphoric males who are not sexually oriented toward men are instead sexually oriented toward the thought or image of themselves as women.” [9] The absolutism in this statement, in the words “all and “instead,” seems astonishing. [10] It reduces a broad continuum of sexuality among transwomen to two narrow maligning stereotypes: either “homosexual males” in denial of a “homosexual” identity or pathological narcissistic “males” sexually attracted to themselves.” — Autogynephilia: The Infallible Derogatory Hypothesis, Part 1
[USA] “The gender alternative to ENDA would still be far from perfect.Even the most inclusive version of ENDA proposed so far was startling in its embrace of stark gender binarism, protecting transgender employees only to the extent they clearly declared themselves to be one sex or the other.The political process may continue to demand caveats on affirmative action and disparate impact claims.Judicial treatment of the new law could go in several directions.Judicial enthusiasm for the PDA, for example, has been mixed.Courts have sliced and diced sex, pregnancy, sex-plus, and sex stereotyping claims in defiance of Congress’s view that all are of a piece.There is no guarantee that their enforcement of a gender amendment would be more enthusiastic.A gender amendment would, however, create at least a chance for some progress, and a chance to avoid creating new problems for intersectional and other non-archetypal plaintiffs.” –Instead of ENDA, A Course Correction for Title VII
[Indonesia] “Heavyset and wearing the pink Islamic headscarf and matching flowing clothes of a pious Indonesian housewife, 48-year-old Maryani says her penis is a gift from God. Born as a boy and raised as a Catholic, Maryani spent years of drinking and selling sex on the streets as part of this city’s transgendered community before discovering Islam. Now, with her eight-year-old adopted daughter Rizky Aryani scrambling across her sturdy thighs, Maryani says her job is to bring Islam to her fellow “waria,” as transgendered people are known here. Tucked into a small alley in Yogyakarta, Maryani’s house has been turned into Indonesia’s first Islamic school set up specifically for waria.” –Indonesian transgendered find refuge in Islamic school
[Finland] “A local Imatra vicar’s announcement that he plans to undergo gender reassignment surgery is forcing the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church to take a stance on sex change. The minister, Olli Aalto, who is taking a temporary leave of absence, intends to begin hormone treatments. After this, he will undergo surgery and physically become a woman. Voitto Huotari, the bishop of the local Mikkeli diocese, says Aalto can no longer continue in his job. Aalto considers this view to be blatantly discriminatory. Aalto says he has been encouraged to leave the Church. However, firing him would break equality law. Aalto says he’s considering taking the Church to court if he is expelled from his job. “Pressuring me to leave is already discrimination,” says Aalto.” — Imatra Vicar Plans Gender Reassignment Surgery
Under the controversial “gender identity” law, a man would be allowed to walk into a women’s restroom or shower room claiming he believes himself to be a woman, essentially opening the door for rape or sexual molestation. In July a lower Montgomery County court agreed more than 900,000 petition signers had the right to see it on the ballot to choose whether to overturn it — but it was appealed.
Putting aside the rape/molestation/sexual predator canard, and just focusing on the math, I’d suggest OneNewsNow (and fellow wingnutter, WorldNetDaily, which has done the same thing) check some numbers …
A 53-year-old man has filed a complaint with the Ohio Civil Rights Commission after the City of Cleveland refused to allow him to use the women’s locker rooms and restrooms at a local public swimming pool.
The man, who will only identify himself as “Karen Deamons,” claims to be a woman even though he has been married to women twice and is the father of three children. The city has tried to accommodate the man by allowing him to use private toilet stalls as a dressing room.
“But it’s still not good enough,” says Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality. “He’s demanding his so-called ‘rights’ — ‘rights’ which are literally being created out of thin air by activist judges and activist law based on this absurd notion that a man can be ‘a woman’ because that’s how he feels he is,” he criticizes.
LaBarbera says he is genuinely saddened by the efforts of gender-confused people such as Deamons to pretend to be someone they are not. “The last thing he told the Cleveland Plain Dealer was, ‘I want the city to let me go through the ladies restroom as a normal woman. That’s who I am and what I am.’ And, obviously, if this man were really a ‘normal woman,’ there would not be any controversy,” he points out.
According to LaBarbera, trans-sexuals are shaking their fist in God’s face and demanding to be treated as they want to be rather than as they were created. He warns that thousands of similar complaints and lawsuits can be expected as transsexual activists become emboldened by support from activist judges and legislators.
I am genuinely sad for Pete. It’s not just the “existential emptiness this poor man has” that Wayne Besen referred to — it’s the obvious “financial emptiness” of his … which leads him to “prostitute” himself like this to make ends meet. And, I don’t know, but — speaking of the world’s oldest occupation — it seems to me that the “sex trade” would at least be a more honest form of prostitution for him to pursue.
Last month the City Council and mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan voted to expand that city’s antidiscrimination protections to include discrimination based on one’s sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.
When such protections have been enacted in other places in the country, such as Montgomery County, Maryland, it’s much too often the case that opponents are firm and unyielding in their opposition.
But, not in Hamtramck, where Ypsilanti resident Jay McNally has displayed such a generous grasp of the meaning and spirit of compromise to the locals , according to today’s Detroit Free Press [emphasis added] …
To Randy Groseclose, an antidiscrimination ordinance passed last month by the Hamtramck City Council sets a dangerous precedent.
“There’s concern about what impact an ordinance like this would have on traditional family values,” the 31-year-old married resident said, noting, “I definitely don’t support any kind of discrimination.”
To others, including Mayor Karen Majewski, the ordinance is a sign of compassionate governance. “The intention … is simply to recognize and ensure basic human rights, basic equality of treatment under the law for every resident of Hamtramck.”
The ordinance prohibits discrimination in housing, employment and city contracting against a wide range of groups, but its inclusion of protections covering sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression has put the city at the center of an ideological battle.
In addition to local interest, outside groups such as the American Family Association of Michigan and the Triangle Foundation have taken a strong interest in the debate.
Groseclose was one of several people who collected signatures for a petition that could allow residents to vote on the ordinance. The group needed 417 signatures from registered voters and collected close to 600. City Clerk Ed Norris said he expects to finish the certification process by Monday. If the group collected enough valid signatures, the City Council would be able to repeal the ordinance or put it on a ballot.
Sean Kosofsky, spokesman for Triangle Foundation in Detroit, said the fight in Hamtramck is the latest skirmish between those who support gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights and those who oppose them. He cited fights over similar ordinances in Ann Arbor, Ferndale, Ypsilanti and other Michigan cities.
He said opponents’ claims that the ordinance would target groups such as the Boy Scouts, Salvation Army and others because of their stances on gay rights are lies. “They’re going to try to pit neighbor against neighbor,” he said.
But Jay McNally, a former Michigan Catholic editor from Ypsilanti, disagreed.
McNally, who considers himself a member of the American Family Association, said council members likely did not understand “the disastrous implications of what the Triangle Foundation has in mind.”
Still, he offered what he considered to be a compromise: McNally said he could support the ordinance without references to sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, points Majewski said were “nonnegotiable.”
The San Diego Union-Tribune is reporting that ex-gay/former homosexual/alleged mouthpiece of God James Hartline is planning to organize his thousands of followers into not tip employees of the Manchester Grand Hyatt.
We have to back up a little, so here’s the story. Doug Manchester is a large shareholder of the Manchester Grand Hyatt, which is named for his family. He contributed $125,000 to Proposition 8 — also known as the California Marriage Protection Act — which is the ballot measure that would undo the California Supreme Courts’ marriage equality ruling.
LGBT civil rights activists and union leaders have organized a boycott of the Manchester Grand Hyatt because of the $125,000 donation. The Unite Here Local 30 is supporting the boycott; Unite Here Local 30 turns out to be the local that represents workers at the Manchester Grand Hyatt.
Fred Karger, Public Relations Chair and founding President of Californians Against Hate organized a news conference about the LGBT boycott of the hotel. From a Union-Tribune article entitled Gay-rights supporters to boycott Manchester Grand Hyatt:
Fred Karger, who is helping to organize the boycott and is running an organization opposed to Proposition 8, said he is also urging the public to boycott Manchester’s other hotel, the Grand Del Mar.
“This is someone who is giving an exorbitant amount of money to write discrimination into the constitution for the very first time,” he said.
Karger said he hopes the boycott will send a message to other potential contributors to the Proposition 8 campaign.
“Our goal is to create a business loss for people who contribute,” he said. “We want to make it a little uncomfortable.”
In the colloquial spirit of saying someone is a sandwich short of a picnic to mean someone isn’t reasoning quite clearly, WingNutDaily‘s Janet Folger appears to be a toilet stall short of a public restroom in her piece Go ahead: Arrest me.
Before we get to what she states she soon plans on doing, we need to get a take on how she reads a section of Colorado’s recently signed-by-the-Colorado-governor public accommodation law (SB 200). From the actual text of the law:
SECTION 8. 24-34-701, Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
24-34-701. Publishing of discriminative matter forbidden. No person, being the owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent, or employee of any place of public accommodation, resort, or amusement, directly or indirectly, by himself or herself or through another person shall publish, issue, circulate, send, distribute, give away, or display in any way, manner, or shape or by any means or method, except as provided in this section, any communication, paper, poster, folder, manuscript, book, pamphlet, writing, print, letter, notice, or advertisement of any kind, nature, or description which THAT is intended or calculated to discriminate or actually discriminates against any disability, race, creed, color, sex, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, marital status, national origin, or ancestry or against any of the members thereof in the matter of furnishing or neglecting or refusing to furnish to them or any one of them any lodging, housing, schooling, or tuition or any accommodation, right, privilege, advantage, or convenience offered to or enjoyed by the general public or which states that any of the accommodations, rights, privileges, advantages, or conveniences of any such place of public accommodation, resort, or amusement shall or will be refused, withheld from, or denied to any person or class of persons on account of disability, race, creed, color, sex, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, marital status, national origin, or ancestry or that the patronage, custom, presence, frequenting, dwelling, staying, or lodging at such place by any person or class of persons belonging to or purporting to be of any particular disability, race, creed, color, sex, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, marital status, national origin, or ancestry is unwelcome or objectionable or not acceptable, desired, or solicited.
How Folger quoted this same section of the new law in her recent article:
Section 8. 24-34-701. Publishing of discriminative matter forbidden. No person, being the owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent, or employee of any place of public accommodation … shall publish, issue, circulate, send, distribute, give away, or display in any way, manner, or shape or by any means or method, except as provided in this section, any communication, paper, poster, folder, manuscript, book, pamphlet, writing, print, letter, notice, or advertisement of any kind, nature, or description that is intended or calculated to discriminate or actually discriminates against … SEXUAL ORIENTATION, marital status … in the matter of furnishing or neglecting or refusing to furnish to them or any one of them any lodging, housing, schooling, or tuition or any accommodation, right [marriage], privilege [adoption] , advantage, or convenience … on account of … SEXUAL ORIENTATION, marital status … [which] is unwelcome or objectionable or not acceptable, desired, or solicited.
I’m not an attorney, but it looks to me that the intent of the section of the law in question is to make it clear that the owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent, or employee of any place of public accommodation, resort, or amusement shouldn’t attempt to violate or circumvent the intent of Colorado Revised Statute 24-34-301 with some sort of written product. (Y’all attorneys out there in Blenderville correct me if I’ve got this totally wrong, okay?) Janet Folder seems to have edited the code section to imply SB 200 states that if any written product disagrees with the homosexual agenda and is found within the state boundaries of Colorado, that’s unlawful — and that any person who publishes or possesses such material is in violation of state law.
And, she pretty much states that this is her interpretation of the statute in this article excerpt:
* Sigh * — From OneNewsNow/’s Moral debate now a public safety issue:
Citizens in Gainesville, Florida, are trying to repeal an ordinance that lets anyone reject their biological sex simply by stating that they “feel like” a member of the opposite sex. At least one citizen argues that introduces some serious safety concerns for the public.
…In fact, Davis’ group has been collecting reports of such incidents, including one in which an elderly woman using a wheelchair complained when an adult male followed her into the women’s restroom at a local grocery store.
“And the manager said, ‘He can legally do it,’” Davis relates. “The manager didn’t even ask this person if he had a sexual or gender identity issue. So just by having this law, men are walking in — and managers, because of the liability associated with questioning people who are protected by the law, they don’t even ask questions.”
The difficulty with the public safety aspect of this argument is that there have been no news stories — no documentation to support the premise — that predators have ever tried to use a public accommodation law in an attempt to cover sexually predatory behavior in a women’s restroom — despite this undocumented, factually bare anecdote given in this article.
What we’re really discussing here is a fear of predatory behavior by cross-dressed males in public restrooms vice actual, documented examples of predatory males actually engaging in any otherwise unlawful behavior in public restrooms — while at the same time being cross-dressed when they attempt to use public accommodation laws as cover for their predatory behavior.
Let’s be frank, here. If there had ever been any documented examples of cross-dressed individuals attempting to use public accommodation laws in an attempt to cover unlawful predatory behavior, I’m absolutely sure we’d have heard about it — it would be a very, very newsworthy story.
The burden of proof that this happens at all — that crossdressing males going into women’s restrooms constitute a real, documentable public safety issue in municipalities, counties, or states that have passed public accommodation laws, and that these allegedly existing predators used public accommodation laws as legal cover for their allegedly predatory behavior — should be on the conservative Christians who claim it as fact, vice falling on us transgender people and allies to prove the negative; vice falling on transgender people to prove that this scenario has never been adequately documented.
Names, dates and times, incident reports and police reports — If conservative Christians want to claim gender identity and expression specific public accommodation laws facilitate predatory behavior and constitute a real, public safety issue, they need to show us palpable evidence that indicates this really is a public safety issue. Otherwise, it’s just transgender bashing based completely on hearsay and/or fear.
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Related:
* White Male Privilege & Women’s Fear Of Crime Intersecting With Gender Expression & Public Restrooms
* When It Comes To Transgender People & Civil Rights, It Really Is Always About The Bathroom
* The Predator Argument Doesn’t Work With Transgender Fifth Graders
* Kevin Moore’s Take On Colorado’s “Bathroom Police”
* I’m Going To Colorado In August With PHB; I’m Going To Make Use Of Public Accommodations
* If Dr. Dobson Were King, We’d All Be Wearing Depends
* The Non-Trans Woman Thrown Out Of A NY Women’s Restroom Sues
* Outing #2: When You Endanger A Child For The Sensationalism Of It
* Latest Attacks Of Teh HomoSEXual Agenda’s Transgenderededs’s Bullet Points
We track blogs, and track what the fundies write over at transgendernews. Scanning the web’s blog engines, we found a post last February from a man named Charlie Ray — someone who labeled himself and his blog Reasonable Christian. The blog entry was titled Christianity Today’s, “The Transgender Moment,” Misleads.
When a Christian takes on the name Reasonable Christian, and writes in the About Me section of his blog…
I’m interested in systematic theology and in philosophy, especially the Christian discipline of apologetics.
…I expect the author of the blog would engage in reasonable discussions in his blogs comment section, in line with Isaiah 1:17,18a
Learn to do right! Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord.
More than one wrote comments to the blog entry asking for the scriptural basis for his beliefs, to which he answered:
[After the fold, Charlie doesn't post opinions that differ from his -- Reasonable Christian doesn't actually do any reasoning with folks who disagree with him.]
… o Pete. Yes, he is at it again, not that he knows anything about pandering, of course.
This is from OneNewsNow today (“Homosexuality takes Congress by storm“) on Mr. Leather‘s latest comments, which seem just so ironically and sadly hilariously over-the-top on so many levels to this reader …
The two openly homosexual members of the U.S. House of Representatives have recruited 50 of their colleagues to officially join them in promoting the homosexual agenda in Congress.
Democrats Barney Frank of Massachusetts and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin are the only open homosexuals serving in Congress. They have joined with Republicans Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida and Christopher Shays of Connecticut, and 50 other Democrats to create the House Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Caucus. Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, says it is a sad day when Congress enshrines official promotion of sexual immorality.
“How interesting that we now have a homosexuality, transsexual caucus – I guess you could call it – at the congressional level. It’s just unbelievable that there are this many congressmen who are promoting homosexuality and transsexual perversion,” LaBarbera laments.
While LaBarbera criticized the two Republicans for lending the appearance of bipartisanship to the group, he reserved his primary wrath for the Democrats.
“I think what this shows is that the hard-core Democratic Left is extremely pro-homosexual,” he states. “Big city populations have many homosexual activists, and they’re disproportionately powerful compared to the rest of the people in the district. Do I think that the average person in the district knows that these members are promoting homosexuality in this way? No way! But there are probably powerful homosexual constituencies in each one of these districts,” LaBarbera explains.
Christians, according to LaBarbera, could learn something from the success of homosexual activists. With very small numbers, they have managed to create the perception of a much larger constituency and, thereby, have many of their political demands met.
“The gays are all about political power. They know how to vote. They’re very committed. They’re not apathetic like many Christians,” says the activist. “And they’ve ‘earned’ this extraordinary total: 52 congressmen coming right out and saying, ‘We are going to vote for homosexuality and transsexuality in Congress,” LaBarbera contends.
Strength in small numbers … sounds like something Jesus might appreciate … not that Barney and the 53 apostles (sorry, we have a problem with inflation) are in that league, of course.
#2 – Big news (yes, it’s worthy of an “orgasmic release” from the Empire State Pride Agenda) from New York on the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA) …
By an overwhelming vote of 102-33, the New York State Assembly early in the evening of June 3 approved a bill affording civil rights protections to the transgender community.
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“I’m numb, I’m pleased, I surprised, I’m impressed,” said Melissa Sklarz, the director of the New York Transgender Rights Organization, who also witnessed the vote. “I always heard that Albany was the place where good ideas go to die, and I figured even our LGBT elected officials would move the marriage bill, but that our bill would not happen. I’m thrilled that everyone who said they would help helped.”
#3 – Still no final results as I write this (Wednesday morning, a little after midnight here on the East Coast) on Victoria Kolakowski‘s bid for a judgeship in Alameda County, California …
In Alameda County, four candidates – prosecutor Phil Daly of San Leandro, state Public Utilities Commission Administrative Law Judge Victoria Kolakowski of Oakland, public-interest lawyer Dennis Hayashi of Castro Valley, and criminal defense attorney Dennis Reid of San Leandro – vied for the seat vacated by Judge Kenneth Kingsbury, who retired.
In early returns, Hayashi and Daly had taken the lead in the hotly contested race, followed by Kolakowski and Reid. If no candidate wins more than 50 percent of the vote, the two top vote-getters will face off in a runoff in November.
Kolakowski, who hears cases at the PUC, said she would be the first known transgender trial court judge in the nation if elected.
#5 – Wanna bet this story doesn’t get a play from the likes of WWD, FOTF, CRG or such?
A man dressed in woman’s clothing was arrested and charged in the Superior Court of Guam.
Court documents state Ruben Cabral Jr. walked into the restroom at the Tower of London Pub and kicked open a stall door while wearing a high heeled shoe.
The woman inside the stall asked Cabral to leave the restroom because it was the ladies’ room and he was a man.
[USA] “According to Stryker in Queer Pulp, the “dimestore” or “pulp” novel owes its popularity to the Army’s attempts to keep the troops occupied by printing and distributing cheap, thin editions of popular and classic novels. Soldiers spread their love of the books, allowing the pulp industry new-found clout by the late ‘40s. Stryker goes on to note that the advent of the gay and lesbian novels of the ‘50s and ‘60s also owes a debt to the rise of the sci-fi novel. Like homosexual literature, tales of intergalactic travel and ghostly apparitions had been around for quite some time, but advancing technology and the prospect of real space travel propelled the genre. As more sci-fi novels featured aliens who enjoyed alternative sexual practices or genders foreign to our two-gender system, audiences become more comfortable with reading about alien love and intercourse, allowing them to view differently sexual relationships outside of the heterosexual norm of procreative sex.” — 
, according to today’s Detroit Free Press [emphasis added] …
To Randy Groseclose, an antidiscrimination ordinance passed last month by the Hamtramck City Council sets a dangerous precedent.
He says it’s a boycott. 
* Sigh * — From OneNewsNow/’s 
