Tuesday 8 September 2015

Letter From America (About Transgender Madness)

Forcing Girls To Share A Bathroom With A Gender-Confused Boy Is Abuse

Matt Walsh
The Blaze

Get ready, folks. There are going to be a lot of stories like this over the next few months.
Lila Perry is a teenage boy at Hillsboro High School in Missouri. Apparently, he was a gay male until about ninth grade, at which point he decided he was actually a straight female. This is the sort of “revelation” that, in saner times, would land the confused young man in rigorous psychological and spiritual counseling. But these are not sane times, so instead it landed him in the girls’ locker room.

The school initially offered Perry access to a private unisex facility, but that wasn’t sufficient. Perry didn’t want to be in his anatomically correct bathroom, nor did he want to be in a gender-neutral bathroom. No, he wanted to be in the girls’ bathroom. That’s what he wanted, and because he belongs to a Protected Class, that’s exactly what he got.

Of course, lost in this discussion of what one dude wants is the small, technical matter of what everyone else wants. As far as that goes, many of his female classmates are, shockingly, rather uncomfortable changing in front of a boy, even if the boy wears a skirt and a wig. Hundreds of students staged a protest at the school this week, insisting that girls — real girls, I mean — deserve a private and safe place to undress or relieve themselves.

But they’re out of luck, it seems.
The administration sided with one entitled boy at the expense of every female in the school. Perry ultimately decided to drop his gym class, meaning he won’t need the locker room, but still plans to use the girls’ bathroom whenever he feels like it. He has no sympathy at all for his classmates who might be wary about sharing a bathroom with a member of the opposite sex. . . .

Progressives across the country agree with his self-centered assessment. Many of them have launched ruthless attacks against his classmates, treating a bunch of teenage girls like they’re a Midwestern chapter of the Islamic State because they want a little privacy when they go to the bathroom.

Now hundreds of concerned citizens are organizing a counter protest for later this week, hoping to finally intimidate and silence any girl who might still have the audacity to defy the transgender narrative that our culture just invented out of whole cloth about 14 seconds ago. Indeed, approximately yesterday, “transgenderism” was a fringe, radical notion way out on the peripherals of left wing quackery, but now, in the blink of an eye, it’s doctrine. Yesterday, boys could be expelled for walking into the girls’ locker room, but now we throw them parades and squeal about their “bravery.”

A boy who wants to trespass in the girls’ bathroom is a “brave girl.” This is utter madness. Worse than madness, it’s a malicious and intentional effort to shame and scold young girls for not wanting a 17-year-old man in the room while they use the toilet. These are kids who’d just prefer it if their lavatories didn’t become laboratories for extreme left wing social experimentation. They are not the ones asking for exceptions or privileges. They simply want to feel secure when they’re in a vulnerable and exposed state. To deny them that exceedingly fair and reasonable accommodation — an accommodation we all had in school — is downright despicable.

That being said, I am not angry at Perry himself. Granted, I do think he’s displaying an immense amount of selfishness and disregard for his fellow classmates. He’s also developed quite a martyr complex, comparing his efforts to pee with girls to that of early 20th century civil rights pioneers:
It wasn’t too long ago white people were saying I don’t feel comfortable sharing a bathroom with a black person and history repeats itself.
. . . .  For the longest time, feminists said that I cannot have opinions about “women’s issues” because I do not have a vagina and a uterus. But now, I cannot only have opinions about women, but actually be one. Likewise, the feminist “rape culture” narrative insisted that if I make a woman uncomfortable through mere jokes or opinions, I have essentially raped her. But now, I can walk into the locker room while she’s changing and if she winces, I am the one who has been abused.

It’s incredible, really. It almost makes me long for the good old days of feminist misandry.

Finally, on another note and for the record, girls aren’t the only ones hurt here. These progressive bathroom policies also open up the door for females to use the boys’ room. This is just as reckless and intolerable.  Fortunately for the boys, however, it does not come up nearly as often. “Male to female transgenders” are about three times more common, further indicating that much of what we call “transgender” is really just a form of homosexual fetishism.

In any case, the safety, privacy, and security of boys and girls alike have been sacrificed on the altar of the gay agenda. This is just the latest example.

There will be many more to come.

Now might be a good time to consider homeschooling.

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