Potty Politics II …

So, it’s not enough that bozos in North Carolina passed a law that you can only use the bathroom appropriate to your gender at birth.

Now the President of the United States has to get involved. 

In case you missed it, he’s had the Justice Department issue a “guidance” that all public schools must allow transgendered persons to use the bathrooms – and now locker rooms – for the gender they identify with.  Or schools could risk losing Federal funds.   

In essence, Obama has said “I’ll see your stupidity, and raise it.” 

Has this been a real problem to date? Especially among school-age kids? 

Even the most ardent advocates for the transgendered estimate maybe, just maybe, there are 700,000 transgendered people in the U.S. That’s about three-tenths of one percent (0.3%) of the population. And according to that same study, most if not all of these are adults. 

There’s little if any data on how many transgendered people under the age of 18 there are. Part of that is because kids up to a certain age have no idea about “gender identity”; even later they may not feel one way or the other. Or they might feel confused and ashamed. 

In any case, it’s an extraordinarily small number. 

That doesn’t mean I don’t have compassion for a school-age kid in this situation.  I just can’t see how allowing a school-age girl who identifies as a male, or a school-age boy who identifies as a female, to use the restroom or locker room of their “gender identity” helps them. 

If anything, understanding how “Lord of the Flies” kids can be, I think it puts them more at risk. And that risk increases the older those kids are.  

I suppose there are forces in play that want to use these kids to push the need for “tolerance” of other lifestyles and sexual orientations at ever decreasing ages.

There’s nothing wrong with teaching tolerance. I'm all in favor of that. But there’s something really wrong about turning these kids into martyrs to promote some adults’ agendas. 

Martyrs never end well. 

The fact that we have, as a society, sexualized children at such an early age is disturbing. The fact that politicians on both sides are using this for political gain is appalling and reprehensible.  

There’s plenty of time later for children to decide for themselves what and who they want to be. There’s no reason to force their hands now. 

Shame on North Carolina for escalating this.  Shame on Obama for raising the stakes. And shame on the media and special interests for keeping this in the news.  

This is about kids, for God's sake, not an agenda.