John Bohling: Bathroom rules another in a long line of executive overreach
Shortly before his 2012 re-election, President Obama conveniently “evolved” (his word) into approving many GLBT rights (as he later “evolved” into changing illegal immigrant rights, after saying over 20 times he couldn’t because he wasn’t “King Obama”).
He is now changing the law again to mandate you don’t have to use the bathroom, dressing-room or shower depending on your birth sex.
Several questions: Who determines what sex you believe you are? Is there a physical examination, or psychological test to clear a male for entering the girls’ facilities? Will there be a monitor at each of those facilities to clear those eligible to enter? Or can just any male enter any female facility anytime he wants? (“I’m feeling my feminine side today, think I’ll shower with the girls.”)
Long list of molestations or not, I don’t want my young daughter in her gender’s facility when a male, legitimately transgender or not, is showering or changing clothes there. Changing a law to mollify a few living at the edges, thereby upsetting the long and deeply held legitimate standards of the vast majority, is, if anything, the opposite of what the Civil Rights Act was meant to correct.
John Bohling, Modesto
This story was originally published May 18, 2016 at 12:38 PM with the headline "John Bohling: Bathroom rules another in a long line of executive overreach."