(TRUNEWS) New York-based Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art has converted all their public restrooms into transgender friendly facilities.
Men’s bathrooms will now have a placard reading “restroom with urinal and stalls” and women’s will read “restroom with only stalls.”
The change came after students campaigning for “equal rights for transgenders” vandalized the bathrooms of one of the buildings on the Manhattan campus last year, tearing down the traditional gender signs while the building was under renovation.
Deciding neither to punish the students nor replace the signs, the liberal administrators of the 157-year-old college decided to cave to the neutral gender activists and removed the rest of the gender identifying signs throughout the campus.
The decision to enable students, faculty and visitors to forgo their God designated gender when deciding which bathroom to use has been heralded as a victory by the radical leftist activists.
One of the student campaigners, Rio Sofia, told The Guardian in an interview that she believes “a public facility shouldn’t have to ask if you’re a man or a woman. It should just ask, do you need to pee or poop?”
TRANSGENDER BATHROOM LAW
Last week North Carolina’s Republican governor Pat McCrory signed the “The Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act” into law, as reported by The Telegraph, formalizing a statewide policy which prohibits individuals from using public bathrooms that do not correspond to their biological gender.
HB2 was passed and signed during a special session called to prevent Charlotte city officials from implementing a local ordnance on April 1, which would have mirrored Cooper Union’s transgender bathroom policy.
Activists campaigning for “equal rights for transgenders” in North Carolina have filed a lawsuit against the state through the American Civil Liberties Union, which argues that the legislation violates the US constitution and breaks federal anti-sex discrimination laws.
Large corporations such as American Airlines, IBM, Apple, Lowes, Cisco, and the NBA and the NFL have exerted similar pressure through harsh criticism and threats of business sanctions.
Governor of North Carolina Pat McCrory introduces candidate for U.S. Senate Thom Tillis (R-NC) at a campaign stop in Raleigh, North Carolina October 29, 2014. REUTERS/Chris Keane
CHRISTIAN RESPONSE
The Christian Post reported that North Carolina’s Lt. Governor Dan Forest called the executive in charge at one of the protesting companies, and asked him if he or any of his staff had actually read the bill. The CEO admitted they had not, and simply adopted the mainstream narrative calling the law discriminatory.
In an OP-ED for The Christian Post titled “6 Truths About Transgender Bathroom Bills”, Frank Turek, the President of CrossExamined.org, wrote about this accepted ignorance surrounding the transgender bathroom issue.
Turk wrote that the company which Lt. Governor Dan Forest called, is in truth, very similar to the other companies protesting the transgender law.
They “haven’t bothered to read the bill” and “are simply taking their marching orders from the misnamed ‘Human Rights Campaign,’ who have the audacity to claim that men have a human right to have access to women and girls in public bathrooms, and that any acknowledgement of the biological differences between men and women is somehow discrimination against people who prefer same-sex relationships,” he wrote.
In the OP-ED, Turek laid out six points which pointedly dismantle the radical progressive lefts movement to “diversify” public restrooms and eliminate biblically defined gender separations.
1. All good laws discriminate against behaviors not people.
No one is being discriminated against with HB2, which prohibits the behavior of a man using the women’s restroom. If any law is wrongly discriminatory it is the bad law passed by the Charlotte City council to create this controversy. It actually discriminates against women and children by making public restrooms unsafe for them. (The ACLU has already filed a lawsuit alleging HB2 does not provide “equal protection” to some folks. Ironically, it’s only because of HB2 that women and children get “equal protection” from predators in public bathrooms).
2. People are equal, but their behaviors are not.
Good laws treat all people equally, but not all of their behaviors equally. In fact, the very reason laws exist at all is because all behaviors are not equal and must be treated differently for the benefit of individuals and society. HB2 discriminates against no one who identifies as LGBT. The law merely sets a safe public bathroom use (behavior) for everyone, and keeps employment law consistent across the state..
3. Your identity is not in your feelings but your biology.
I can’t believe there is actually a need to say this, but many on the Left are living in their own invented realty and they are demanding that others live in it too. The reason there have been separate bathrooms is because of biological sexual differences, not because of feelings or “gender identity.” HB2 simply says that people will use public bathrooms that align with their biological sex as found on their birth certificate.
How could this possibly be controversial? Are we to risk the safety of millions of women and children in public restrooms because an extremely small number of people are experiencing a mismatch between their psychology and their biology?
Good public policy does not risk the physical safety of women and children so an extreme few have a preference for a different bathroom.
Moreover, HB2 actually accommodates people who have had so-called “sex change” operations. They can use the bathroom of their choice provided they’ve had their birth certificate changed. It also affects only public restrooms.
Companies and other private organizations can adopt any policy they want for their workplace.
Does the NBA and the NFL allow men in women’s bathrooms? Does Apple? Cisco? Marriott? Lowes?
Then why are they insisting the government force everyone to do so? Why do they think North Carolina is wrongly discriminating when they are doing exactly the same thing in their businesses?
And why aren’t these holier-than-thou folks threatening to pull their business from Iran and Saudi Arabia who are actually murdering homosexuals?
Their moral outrage is not only misdirected, it shows that they’re willing to put women and children at risk by kowtowing to a deceptive special interest group, but they’ll sacrifice nothing to save the people they say they care about by confronting real evil abroad.
4. The danger is real from sexual predators in women’s restrooms.
If you don’t think so, then watch this video. Just the first six minutes are chilling enough.
5. Race and LGBT are not the same.
Race is not a behavior and race has no impact on someone’s behavior. But homosexuality is a behavior and LGBT political goals are all about imposing certain leftist behaviors on others, from forcing people to participate in same-sex marriage ceremonies to allowing men in women’s restrooms.
The Human Rights Campaign also wants to use the strong arm of government to force companies to give employment preference to a long list of sexual orientations. This would mean that someone who claimed a homosexual orientation — or someone who exhibited the behavior of cross-dressing at work for example — would have more job security than John or Jane Doe. How so?
Because if a company has to downsize, who are they going to let go — one of the helpless Does, or the person who can bring a costly lawsuit alleging “discrimination”?
6. Opposition to harmful behavior is not bigotry.
It is wise. Unfortunately, some on the Left and in business falsely equate opposition to a behavior as prejudice toward people who engage in that behavior.
That’s the central fallacy in virtually every argument the Human Rights Campaign puts out — if you don’t agree with every aspect of LGBT behavior or their political goals, you are somehow bigoted against people who identify that way.
If political opposition is bigotry, then the activists at the Human Rights Campaign are bigots for opposing conservatives. The truth is conservatives and Christians have good reasons based in public health and safety for not wanting to advocate same-sex marriage or men in women’s bathrooms. But it’s much easier for the Human Rights Campaign to ignore those arguments and call people names.
Frank Turek ended his power response by noting: “The truth is just too dangerous.”
An Occupy Wall Street protester chants slogans along 47th Street in New York September 17, 2013. REUTERS/Joshua Lott
CONCLUSION
The radical left want nothing more than to change the nation they despise. Rick Wiles of TRUNEWS has said in the past that movements like Democracy Spring and Black Lives Matter are nothing more than Soros funded NGO’s, with the goal to bully and intimidate communist mob rule on the rest of the country.
As the war and revolution cycle described in William Strauss and Neil Howe’s book “The Fourth Turning” converge this year, America and much of the globe will experience various populist uprisings as well as a steady push toward world war.
In America, social movements which strive to confuse and distort gender norms and shatter biblical culture will be the vanguard of the
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