What is going on across this country. How did we get here? Now this is just stupid. We cannot keep on getting more and more ridicules. Can this happen in Oklahoma?
Bob
YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK
City vote opens women’s restroom doors to men
But people have chance to speak before ‘gender identity’ move becomes law
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Posted: November 17, 2009
9:41 pm Eastern
By Drew Zahn
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
The city council of Tampa, Fla., voted unanimously last week to include “gender identity and expression” as a protected class under the city’s human rights ordinance, leading some to fear the council has opened the city’s public bathroom doors to sexual predators masquerading as protected transsexuals.
A statement from the American Family Association explained, “Tampa Police arrested Robert Johnson in February 2008 for hanging out in the locker room–restroom area at Lifestyle Fitness and watching women in an undressed state. The City of Tampa’s ‘gender identity’ ordinance could provide a legal defense to future cases like this if the accused claims that his gender is female.”
The council’s decision, which won’t be codified as law until a final vote is taken Thursday night, defines gender identity and expression as “gender-related identity, appearance, expression or behavior of an individual, regardless of the individual’s assigned sex at birth.”
The city’s current ordinance forbids discrimination on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, handicap, familial status or marital status mostly in areas of labor and employment.
But the section that makes it illegal to “segregate any person at a place of public accommodation, or to segregate any person in regards to … facilities” leads some to worry about the consequences of forbidding discrimination “regardless of the individual’s sex at birth.”
“This ordinance will give lawful protection to cross-dressing males to patronize women’s restrooms,” the Florida Family Association said in a statement. “And men dressed as women or women who perceive themselves as men can also use men’s restrooms.”
City Attorney Chip Fletcher told The Tampa Tribune the changes are not meant to protect the occasional cross-dresser, but individuals who are undergoing sexual reassignment surgery.
“This is intended to address people who are dealing with gender identity,” he said.
Nonetheless, the council’s decision has sparked a public outcry.
The American Family Association has created a contact page, where concerned Americans can, with one form, send out emails objecting to the ordinance change to Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio and all seven council members at once.
“We’re trying to mobilize people to stand in opposition to what is a bad law,” said Terry Kemple, president of the Community Issues Council, in a St. Petersburg Times report. “It discriminates against Christians and provides special privileges for people based on sexually aberrant behavior.”
On the flip side, Zeke Fread, director of Pride Tampa Bay, says his group plans to organize supporters of the change to rally at Thursday’s council meeting.
“Now that Kemple sent out his alert to his people, we’re mobilizing furiously,” Fread said.
The gender identity ordinance makes exception for religious organizations, nonprofits and parochial schools, but does not exempt private businesses, public restrooms, public schools or nonreligious day-care centers.
Therefore, the AFA pointed out, the issue moves beyond just public restrooms.
“The gender identity ordinance also provides legal protection for transgenders to teach schoolchildren one day as a man and another day as a woman,” AFA President Tim Wildmon wrote in an e-mail. “Unfortunately, the ordinance does not attempt to qualify who really is a transgender and who is not. That is left up to the individual to determine what his ‘gender identity’ is that day.”
WND reported on a similar plan adopted by fiat in Montgomery County, Md., where opponents feared the law would open up women’s locker rooms to men who say they are women.
The issue also has come up in Colorado, where Democrat Gov. Bill Ritter signed into law a plan that effectively strikes gender-specific restrooms across the state.
And city officials in Kalamazoo, Mich., only weeks after adopting a “perceived gender” bias plan have abandoned it in the face of massive public opposition.
Who is standing up for the rights of the majority of the people? I oppose this law, but not for reasons some may think. I have not ill contempt toward any person of the gay/lesbian community. However, the bathroom ordinance is not exactly for them, now is it. We already shares bathrooms. The real issue is that this law now opens doors for any sexual predator, child molester, rapist and pervert to hang out in the restrooms and violent the privacy of women and children.
“It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand for it.” A.A. Hodge
I feel now that I am being discriminated against. Is it that I’m female, that I have morals that I teach my children or is it that I profess to be a christian??
I want to keep my children innocent in the knowledge of certain issues as long as possible.
And I ask that if the people of these communities; gay/lesbian, human rights activists and other organizations preach about rights, respect and discrimination, maybe it would be better served if they actually practiced that thought to others; especially those that may not agree with you!
Please do not confuse the difference between discrimination and mere disagreement!!
The Communists have been attempting to subvert our traditions in America for decades. Their vehicle of choice is the Democratic Party. Perversity is part of they’re game. We see it on display here. Communists are using Gay Rights groups with the aid of the Democratic Party to further their perversity of America. Clowns like your own President Obama support this perversity. He calls himself a Christian? What a joke!!
First, two terms we need to set straight. A Transgender is someone who is mentally/spiritually one sex while trapped in the body of the other. They do not have to express it in any way. A Transsexual is a transgender who has actually moved to unite body and spirt. That is, they are taking hormones, using surgery and a myriad other techniques to reshape their body to that of their true gender.
I still don’t know the details of this ordinance, no thanks to this article either, so I will just say how things SHOULD be if our lawmakers are sane.
1. Cross-dressers and any male/female who ‘claim’ to be transgender should not be able to use the womens/mens bathroom. This is because their ‘true nature’ is still subjective and hidden. I can go along with this though I do sympathize with true transgenders.
2. A transsexual SHOULD be able to use their chosen bathroom. Unlike the transgender, They will be obvious because they will have the physical features of their true gender. Not only that, but they will have the correct mentality for their environment thanks to hormones and the natural state of their mind/spirit.
For instance, a MtF trans who has been on hormones long enough to ‘show’ is harmless. They are as weak (AND VULNERABLE) as a natural born girl, but also they are mentally, sexually and emotionally a girl too. Whenever society tries to ‘drag them back’ to their old state, it is very traumatizing and hurtful for them. This includes being forced to use the wrong bathroom.
If this law is being made more for the LGB community and less for the T, then there could be problems, yes. It’s likely, too…the more I think about it…because the LGB part gets far more legal/political attention then the T. After all, you don’t see us going on “Transsexual Pride” marches…haha. We just want to lead ordinary lives as our true gender. I just hope any planned backlash against the ordinance at least keeps us oft forgotten people in mind.