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Oregon School District Fights the Bathroom Battle and Loses

Oregon School District Fights the Bathroom Battle and Loses

Last updated on: July 27, 2018 at 5:35 pm by Susan Wright

Oregon School District Fights the Bathroom Battle and Loses 2018-07-27T17:35:23-04:00 Susan Wright

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I’m sorry, but this is not ok.

I’m from North Carolina. The Tar Heel state had its own bathroom battle back in 2016, after the liberal Charlotte City Council attempted to pass a broadly worded city ordinance that would have required open access to any public bathroom for anyone, based on whatever gender they decided they were, for the day.

The Republican-led state General Assembly held an emergency vote and voted overwhelmingly to pass HB2 – a bill that determined public bathrooms in the state of North Carolina would, indeed, be restricted to birth gender.

The wailing and gnashing of teeth amongst the science deniers of the left was incredible, with the obnoxious bully sitting in the White House at that time (that’s Barack Obama, for those of you who thought the man was anything other than a social justice tyrant) diving into the fray and attempting to overreach from his safe perch in Washington, right into North Carolina’s business. He attempted to pass a sweeping executive edict, making all bathrooms and locker rooms in the nation’s schools as sexual free-for-alls.

He even sent his [possibly] criminally corrupt Attorney General Loretta Lynch to attempt to bully the state with a lawsuit.

Our amazing then-Governor Pat McCrory met the threat by filing a lawsuit first.

After a tough campaign and a state that continued to flourish, economically, in spite of the temper tantrums by the left, the General Assembly voted again on the bill and the deal was made to put things back as they were before, with the Charlotte City Council agreeing to let their little social experiment go and sanity being restored.

Men and boys use the Men’s restroom.

Women and girls use the Women’s restroom.

Those who aren’t sure what they are had better go before they leave the house or hold it until they get home, because they don’t get to force their dysphoria on the public, in the great state of North Carolina.

Unfortunately, we can’t all be Tar Heels, and the state of Oregon shines a bit less bright today, thanks to the ill-advised actions of an activist federal judge with twisted views of gender.

U.S. District Court Judge Marco Hernandez, ruling on a case brought against the Dallas School District No. 2’s policy that made school bathrooms free-for-alls in the gender wars, ruled that there was nothing wrong with a 17-year old boy to enter the school bathroom with a 15-year old girl, with nothing else but his word that he was “transgender.”

Insane.

In his ruling, Judge Hernandez rejected the argument that the plaintiffs’ right to privacy was being violated by the school district’s transgender student policy.

“Plaintiffs present the court with unpersuasive precedent that fails to establish their purported privacy right,” wrote Hernandez.

“Courts have recognized that the presence of transgender people in an intimate setting does not, by itself, create a sexually harassing environment that is severe and pervasive.”

They may have “recognized that,” but that doesn’t mean there haven’t been problems, because there have been, and often enough that it would seem somebody would care enough about the other 99 percent of the population to not want to risk even one child’s safety.

Unfortunately, the anti-science zealots are so determined to make the imaginary seem real that they couldn’t care less about your children or their well-being.

One glaringly clear example came from an editorial in the Charlotte Observer, at the height of the bathroom war in North Carolina.

The editorialist actually wrote that young girls uncomfortable with sharing the bathroom with strange men would have to overcome their “bias,” and get used to seeing penises in their bathrooms.

I’m not kidding. Some disgusting individual wrote this, and was serious about it.

That, of course, is the weapon they use in this war. They know that most people want to be seen as good people. They don’t want to be seen as bigoted or biased, so if you preemptively suggest that their discomfort with delicate privacy issues is simply a symptom of bias, then they can be shut down and their voices left unheard.

WELL, let me point out that if your default mode is to accuse anyone who expresses discomfort or concern of being biased or bigoted, without considering they may have legitimate concerns, then YOU have your own biases to deal with.

It’s all about dialogue, but the anti-science left aren’t really big on the free exchange of ideas or with understanding their fellow man, either.

Of course, the ACLU was all over the Oregon case.

“The judge understood that transgender students just using restrooms and lockers like everyone else does not violate anyone’s rights. In fact, it would violate students’ rights to keep them out of the facilities their peers use just because they are transgender,” stated ACLU attorney Gabriel Arkles on Wednesday.

But they’re not using restrooms and locker rooms like everyone else. They’re pretending to be something they’re not, gaining access to the most private and vulnerable spaces a person can occupy.

The Oregon policy was laughably called the “School Safety Plan.” The plaintiffs involved in the case included the organizations, Parents for Privacy and Parents Rights in Education.

“The Student Safety Plan has had and continues to have a profoundly negative effect on the students’ access to educational opportunities, benefits, programs, and activities at their schools,” read the lawsuit filed last year.

“Numerous courts have recognized a fundamental right to bodily privacy, which right includes a right to privacy of one’s fully or partially unclothed body and the right to be free from state-compelled risk of intimate exposure of oneself to the opposite sex.”

That’s a perfectly reasonable expectation, but these pockets of leftwing activist judges, as well as school boards and city council members have no trouble exposing the children of others to their whims, no matter the concerns of the community, as a whole.

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