Where in the Constitution is the federal government given the power to regulate bathroom arrangements? Leaving aside the Constitution, by what excuse for logic do they right to do so? From Mark S. Hanna at americanthinker.com:
As a Western revolutionary, Obama has been relentless in his efforts over the last seven years to use all the machinery and influence of government, whether illegally (since 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously ruled 13 times that Obama’s actions have been unconstitutional) or legally, to fundamentally transform America into the neo-Marxist democracy he and his father have long dreamed about.
His most recent stunt to this end is to use North Carolina’s “bathroom” law, or House Bill 2, as a springboard for the U.S. Justice Department to issue a sweeping dictate in the name of social fairness and civil rights. House Bill 2, which requires individuals to use the public bathrooms and showers that correspond to their birth sex, was drafted and passed in order to negate an unconstitutional Charlotte city ordinance that forced different sexes to share public accommodations.
What’s most ominous about Obama’s latest maneuver is that the letter sent by the Justice Department to North Carolina governor Pat McCrory stakes out a position for the federal government that would apply to every business in America, as well as all universities and colleges that receive federal funds, that are subject to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
According to Gov. McCrory, the demand letter (read the letter here) sent to top North Carolina officials should be understood as follows:
One thing the nation has to realize is this is no longer just a North Carolina issue. This order, this letter by the Justice Department, is saying that every company in the United States of America that has more than 15 employees are going to have to abide by the federal government’s regulations on bathrooms. So now the federal government is going to tell almost every private sector company in the United States who can or cannot come into their bathrooms, restrooms, their shower facilities for their employees. And they’re also telling every university in the United States of America — it’s not just North Carolina — they’re now telling every university that accepts federal funding that boys who may think they’re a girl can go into a locker room or a restroom or shower facility.
Barack Obama and his militant Justice Department don’t care at all about individuals confused or rebellious about their gender. As with all revolutionary activity, the goal is to seize upon crisis in order to further the aggrandizement of the State, and its control over every competing area of society.
Obama’s response to North Carolina is a classic leftist maneuver of setting up a straw man, or transgender in this case, to ensure and continue to expand federal power over the states. From a revolutionary perspective, states with their 10th Amendment constitutional sovereignty are antithetical to the long-term objective of an international socialist system.
To continue reading: Obama’s toilet revolution
Bigger than bathrooms – essentially there is no such thing as a “sex, “ other than what the federal government deems (or something similar to what the Fourth Circuit held and most certainly, the Supremes will hold), and any person born with a penis (hereinafter referred to as a “man”) can decide at any time, for any duration of time, that he is, in fact and truth, exactly the same as a person born with a vagina (hereinafter referred to as a “woman”). Therefore, the category and identity of “woman,” are destroyed except as women or women’s places, spaces, physicality, etc. serve the needs of men who insist they are “women.”
If a man decides he is a woman (even if just for that afternoon) he has the right to enter spaces set aside for women, such as their bathrooms, locker rooms and changing rooms. He may state that he “feels” like a woman (apologies to Shania Twain), and must be treated like one; he may claim he is afraid to toilet, shower or change with men. An accommodation such as allowing a separate space for a him who feels like a her is not acceptable – he must watch women toilet, shower and change. It does not matter that his internal reality has no correspondence with actual reality, and that the women do not share his delusion and do not want to be the objects of this particular “male gaze.” The women in that toilet, dressing room or locker room exist in reality only to provide the “therapy” he states he needs and to provide him a space away from the “male gaze.”
Women therefore have no voice or right to object to any “male gaze.” How can a woman know that a particular man is, in fact, a man? She has no right to object to a “male gaze” anywhere – only a bigot and transphobe would assume a man is not, in fact, a woman – and a lesbian woman at that.
Traditional women’s teams have no right to federal funds under Title IX. Who is to say that the men who say they are women cannot populate the women’s lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming and tennis teams? No one can say that. These men, who are now, in fact, women, can push every woman off the team. No set-asides for women. This is because men who say they are women are as much “women” as vagina-women are. They are actually better women, because they are, on average, stronger and faster. The best woman for the job will always be a man.
So, if a man cannot or does not want to make the men’s team, all he has to do on tryout day is “identify” as a woman. If 15 to 20 such men decided to do that for the lacrosse or tennis teams, it is highly likely the entire team would be men – identifying as women of course. And since no one can “discriminate” against such men, and because there is no requirement other than the man’s bald assertion that he is a woman, the school gets credit under Title IX for supporting “women’s” sports.
Olympic and professional sports will soon follow.
There is no need to encourage women in the STEM fields, if there are enough men who identify as women in those fields. Who is to say that those men are not women? No one can say that – so when colleges, medical schools, engineering firms, etc. report the percentages of men and women in their programs or on the job, they will get “woman” credit for every man who identifies as a woman on the day the reports are prepared. Even the “Vagina Monologues” performances have been canceled because of the men who say they are women. No category of “vagina” is allowed – even in the arts. “Women’s Studies” are becoming “Gender Studies” – no category of “woman” allowed.
Women will have no protection against job discrimination, college or graduate school entry, or choice about being housed with men in dorm rooms, hospital rooms, or prisons under the same criteria. All a man has to do is state to the company, hospital, prison or college that he “identifies” as a woman (at least on that day!) It does not matter if he is married to a woman, that he is a father or will father children, that he dresses and presents as a traditional male. Who is to say that he is not a woman? No one can say he is not a woman.
In time, vagina-women can be pushed back out of the academy and labor force into the jobs the men never wanted anyway. They will lose all privacy in hospitals, dorms, prisons. Rape in prison? Heck, that has been happening for decades. So what?
Women’s physicality, their relative vulnerability do not matter – they exist only to confirm certain men at certain times in their claims that those men, are, in fact, women. The only vulnerable ones are the men claiming to be women. Men can claim unlimited protection, which is to inhabit the spaces of women. Women may not claim any such protection.
Women now have no say as to who is in their “identity group.” Contrast this with black identity. Black identity groups are more popular than ever – “safe spaces” away from whites on college campuses, “Black Lives Matter,” and “black power” are all acceptable expressions of “black identity.” Rachel Dolezal, a white person who attempted to be “identified” as black was shut down – others “questioned” her racial identity. The government and the media approve of black (and Hispanic) identities as categories. They deny that a “woman identity” is a real category.
Reducing “woman-ness” to the thoughts inside a man’s head inevitably results in limited utility for “woman” in society. The only utility vagina-women will have (outside of confirming a man’s identity as a woman) will be as breeders, models and actresses (and maybe not even as models and actresses – see Sports Illustrated).
A misogynist paradise – woman-hood defined exclusively by men! Woman’s utility reduced to breeder. The women’s movement completely obliterated, your daughters left with whatever educational and vocational crumbs the men do not want – enforced by the government, courts and thought leaders of that movement. Brilliant.