It seems that Colorado has passed a law allowing transvestites to use the bathroom of their choice. What a victory! Now men who think they are women can join women in the women’s rest room! How egalitarian. How comforting. I can just picture my 8 year old daughter in the bathroom while some guy in a dress delicately adjusts his johnson at the sink.
Even worse, I can see butch women trying to make a go of the men’s room without being harassed, and then trying to press harassment charges when men rightly ridicule them, asking them how big their own johnson might be. As I suggested (humorously) in Transgender Rights override women’s rights:
We can either separate men and women by their God-given biology, or we
need to create new spaces for the now FOUR possible genders.
Chuck Colson has written a nice piece on this debacle, and so has the Constructive Curmudgeon in Transvestite Invasion: Truth Evasion:
What is now stopping a sexual predator from going into the women’s room to stalk (or worse) a young girl? How would a defecating male in the women’s make women–real women–feel in there?
Even worse, this law might apply to churches and businesses who don’t comply with this asinine law. As I wrote in The coming conflict between same-sex marriage and religious liberty, the GLBT agenda claims to be egalitarian, but what is happening in reality is that those who oppose the mental illnesses of GLBT identities are now subject to lawsuits, fines, and imprisonment, not to mention loss of tax-exempt status. See how this Colorado law will apply:
Colorado tops them all on the potential outrage meter, however, because in addition to civil fines and penalties, small-business owners can be prosecuted under the criminal laws of Colorado and spend up to one year in jail for trying to live according to their faith.
To add insult to injury, your tax dollars will be used to prosecute these people of faith, and the legislature is expecting 30 complaints and three legal cases per year.
Colorado will now experiment with the liberty-destroying GLBT laws that are beginning to ravage Canada. Want to see what’s coming if we pursue this path? Here’s what happened to a Canadian pastor recently:
In a decision dated May 30 in the penalty phase of the quasi-judicial proceedings run by the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal,
evangelical pastor Stephen Boisson was banned from expressing his
biblical perspective of homosexuality and ordered to pay $5,000 for
"damages for pain and suffering" as well as apologize to the activist
who complained of being hurt.
It’s already happening IN THE USA:
In Albuquerque, which has a similar law, a Christian
husband and wife who own and operate their own photography studio were
recently hauled before that state’s human rights commission and fined
more than $6,600 for politely refusing, on religious grounds, to
photograph a lesbian "commitment ceremony." We’ve seen similar charges
brought by homosexuals against a video reproduction business in
Virginia, a medical clinic in California, an adoption service in
Arizona and a church in New Jersey.
Amazing, tragic, enraging, and idiotic.
I disassociate myself from this law. To my mind, transvestite and transsexual issues have little-to-nothing to do with gay rights, and I resent being lumped in with them.
As to the rest: If you are running a business involving the public you are subject to the same laws as the rest of us. You aren’t allowed to discriminate based on religious or any other basis. Religion has no “special rights” exempting it from the law.
Well, this trend seems to be an ongoing theme in this country. What an outrage! It wasn’t long ago that the law stepped in about race. Now they’ve gone so far as to make people deal with cross-dressers! What’s next?
It wasn’t long ago that the law stepped in about race. Now they’ve gone so far as to make people deal with cross-dressers!
I am sorry, but I do not agree with correlating transsexualism with race. I mean, do you support same-sex bathrooms too? I mean, why separate men from women? That’s really the corrolary. Tran ‘women’ are biologically male. That should keep them in the men’s room.
In fact, if you want to make gender identity a basis for bathrooms, then what we need are:
Straight men’s room
Straight women’s room
Gay men’s room
Gay women’s room
Trans men’s room
Trans women’s room
I think the traditional biological separation is really the right standard.
. To my mind, transvestite and transsexual issues have little-to-nothing to do with gay rights, and I resent being lumped in with them.
I don’t understand why you think these are that different. Why do you look down on them, but not gays or straights?
I don’t look down on them; I just don’t feel the issue is the same.
I am fascinated. Can you tell me how you distinguish them, or how you view them? I realize that they are different, but they are often grouped. I suspect from this and other comments you have made that your ‘resentment’ is more than just over the confusion of these two, but that you don’t like being associated with them.
Really. Why should I go into depth with you when you have made it abundantly clear that you consider me both a pervert and a reprobate. Your rhetoric towards me has been so insulting, so degrading, that you don’t deserve to be treated by me as a civilized person. Your “fascination” not withstanding.
have it your way.
I wonder why he even posts here.
Oh stop it. You are really scaring me! I don’t want to go in a public bathroom if I know there might be a man in there, I don’t care how he is dressed! YIKES!
We should be scared, not just because men could be in women’s bathrooms, but that our businesses and churches might be sued or fined for not allowing such things, or not hiring gays or transsexuals as ministers, etc. Time to fight stupidity with logic and fervor.
I think it’s quite scary that there could be men in women’s bathrooms. I can see the number of rapes and attacks on women going up. I think they have taken equal rights too far in this case. I know I will not be going in a public restroom alone in Colorado anymore.
Transexuals or transvestites raping women? You need to get a life.
You are missing the point.
1. Any perv could pretend to be a trannie, dress up as a woman, and gain access to a women’s room. This opens the door for that.
2. Transsexuals and transvestites are by definition mentally sick and sexually confused, and so who can predict their behavior? Regardless of how they identity, they are physically MEN, with all the testosterone that is implied.
This is really stupid. Straight men commit the overwhelming number of rapes (if not all of them). To fear those who wish to be women is stupid and ignorant. Mental sickness and sexual confusion is rampant among heterosexuals, why blame trannies? Oh, right – scapegoats. Of course, those who claim the backing of the Jew god can do no wrong.
Again, no one says that trannies will be the main pervs in the women’s room. But this stoopid ruling opens the door for any crossdressing perv, straight or not, genuine or not, to go into the women’s room. Dumb.
“Regardless of how they identity, they are physically MEN, with all the testosterone that is implied.”
It’s quite sad that you believe that only men are susceptible to gender confusion. I myself know two former females who are now living their lives as men. I certainly would not be surprised if the number of men who consider themselves to be transgendered were greater than the number of women, but this issue clearly falls on both sides of the road.
(To those that are being oblivious)
MY GODS quit being imbicilies and think.
How can one depict the difference between a transexual or transvestite? HMM? Don’t tell me it involves inspection of private parts OR by simply asking.
FLAWS that should be abundantly clear:
PEOPLE LIE
YOU CANNOT SEE WHAT GENDER THEY ARE WHEN THEY ARE CLOTHED.
So, a straight man walks his way into the ladies room (lying about his sexuality)
Do you see the problem here?
It’s basically a welcome mat for rape and voyeurism.
IT IS ILLEGAL to tape what is happening in a bathroom.
In most intelligent states, it is ILLEGAL for a man to walk into a womens bathroom or visa versa.
THEREFORE
You pretty much open the door for possible would be rapists (or similar).
Why is it so important to remove discrimination of gender from the public restroom sense?
THE PROBLEM is
naturally men are attracted to women as women are attracted to men. Racial segregation was nothing like that. It was fueled by hatred. Segregation of women from men in restrooms isn’t from hatred, it’s from intelligence. Bathrooms are unmonitored and that’s generally where you declothe.
God people are stupid.
Transsexuals take drugs that change their hormone levels, they don’t have ‘all the testosterone that is implied.’
People undress in stalls, I’ve never walked into a bathroom in my life to see someone who was sitting there butt naked in the middle of the room.
Why is it so important to remove it? Why is it so important to defend it? Jesus Christ, in all of the time that people spend upkeeping this website they could be outside making a real difference in somebody’s lives instead of bitching about a marginalized element of society being given a break.
Where are these people supposed to use the bathroom? Are they not allowed to use a public bathroom? Aren’t they running the risk of being hurt pretty badly when they walk into the bathroom of their biological sex?
Oh yeah, I’m pretty sure that it would make most men pretty uncomfortable when somebody that looked like a woman walked into their bathroom too. You can’t totally leave them out of this…