Transgenderism and The Emperor’s New Clothes
by Marcia Segelstein, NC Register:
The Obama administration has directed schools, including “all public schools and most colleges and universities that receive federal funds” to—as the Washington Post put it—“provide transgender students with access to suitable facilities—including bathrooms and locker rooms—that match their gender identity.”
The directive, which came from the assistant secretary of education for civil rights and the head of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, means that schools which fail to comply will be in violation of Title IX. Non-compliance means risking the loss of federal funds. It’s not a matter of breaking the law. Rather it’s a kind of ideological extortion: submit or have your money taken away.
And just to be absolutely clear, the letter spells out that schools should accept a student’s transgender self-identification without requiring a “medical diagnosis or treatment.” If a male student says he’s female, he/she should be allowed to use the girls’/women’s bathroom and locker room. If schools have single-sex dormitories, that male student who self-identifies as a female must be allowed to sleep with the girls.
Let’s say for the moment that the administration is doing all this with the best of intentions. Let’s say the president and his colleagues believe not allowing boys who think they’re girls (or want to be girls) to use the girls’ restroom would be psychologically or emotionally damaging to them. Does it help those children to impose what amounts to an “Emperor’s New Clothes” injunction on the rest of the world? If we all just go along and pretend that a boy is really a girl—that the Emperor isn’t really naked—will all be well?
See also: Calling colours by their real names, by Jeremiah Beanfarmer, Anglican Mainstream
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