The State of North Carolina just passed a law that prohibits
transgender people from entering any public restroom other than the one conforming
to their sex as identified on their birth certificate, prohibits any third
restroom not identified as male or female as an attempt to accommodate
transgendered people, and further prohibits any city, county or local ordinance
that conflicts with that state law, or any school district policy that states
otherwise.
It is unfortunate that the right wing social barbarians of
North Carolina, who claim this action in the name of their Christian freedom to
discriminate, cannot grasp the fact that transgender people do not choose that
life style and should not be punished for being true to who they are.
What does it matter which bathroom they use? North Carolina
is just making itself look bad and shooting itself in the economic butt. If a person wearing a dress and possessing a penis
(or has had it removed) subsequently enters a women's bathroom and uses a
private stall (which is all they have there) how would anyone know or
care? If a person with a vagina but
wearing men's clothing enters a men's room and uses a stall (they can't use the
urinal) who would notice or care?
Why compound the issues further by prohibiting public
entities from having bathrooms that are private and gender neutral the way they
do now for baby changing rooms? Why interfere with local governments who take a
more tolerant and compassionate view? When are we going to stop catering to the
right wing loonies who deny everyone else the right to move into the 21st
Century and claim their presumed religious freedom as their rationale to act
like the bigots they are? Why shouldn't the fried chicken people or the golden
arches folks be able to build a third bathroom if it makes their customers more
comfortable? Citizens of the modern
world that most of us live in should indicate their disgust by boycotting North
Carolina until it comes to its senses and stops catering to the fundamentalist
Christian bigots who want to run everyone else's lives.
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