Reader Poll: “Would you use a dressing room that was open to transgender individuals?”

Here’s the questions we asked readers:     

“Would you use a dressing room that was open to transgender individuals?”

Here’s how readers responded:

  1 Percent                    Yes” (answer by female)

63 Percent                   “No” (answer by female)                                          

  1 Percent                   “Yes” (answer by male)          

35 Percent                   “No” (answer by male)

 

This question is a result of the story about a Macy’s Department store employee who was fired for refusing to let a transgender woman use a women’s dressing room.  The young woman stated that she was fired for attempting to protect female customers and for standing by her religious convictions.  We think that the strongest argument is one of protection for customers.

Thus, we thought we’d ask how many of our readers would feel comfortable they’d feel with the situation.  You can see from the above results that very few would welcome having someone of the opposite sex in their dressing rooms.  Can’t say as we’re surprised.

In an update to this story, a second Macy’s employee has spoken out about the problems she has encountered with men in women’s changing rooms.  Seems this is an ongoing problem at the large department store.

Can GLBT change their orientation?

Gay advocates are adamant:  homosexuals CANNOT change their orientation.  In fact, that notion is a foundational principle of the gay rights movement – allowing them to hitch their wagons (so to speak) to the civil rights movement.

The gay lobby will have a difficult time explaining away Sarah Allis Yang.  Ms. Yang recently gave testimony in regard to California’s SB 48 – a bill that would require all California public schools to portray homosexual, bisexual, and transgendered behavior in a positive light.  The bill requires that “gay history” be integrated into all textbooks and instructional materials.

Sarah Yang testified against the bill saying that it will  “promote gender confusion and experimentation.”  She also testifies of the harm that has come into her life because of her same-sex behavior and that change is possible; stating that “there are thousands like me.”    We wanted you to see the video so that you can also share the message:  Change is possible.   And if you live in California, speak out now against SB 48.

Day Five: Strategies of Resistance – stop the Religious Fundamentalists

Last year at the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), religion in general was public enemy number one.  This year the feminists have refined and re-framed their argument to unabashedly make “Religious Fundamentalism” their target.  What is their definition of a religious fundamentalist?

Although it was never actually defined, they made it clear that anyone who opposed women’s rights (meaning abortion, sexual rights or GLBTQI rights) is a fundamentalist?  Anyone that believes in the traditional or the “hetero-normative” family is a religious fundamentalist.  Anyone that saw the role of motherhood in a positive light is probably a religious fundamentalist – or at the very least oppressed by religious fundamentalists.  They had everyone from a jihadist to anyone that believed in and support traditional gender roles as being part of the Religious Fundamentalist movement.

By the way, GLBTQI is widely touted at the UN.  Gay rights activists continue to add more letters to their little acronym:  Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, Questioning, or Intersex – the list of sexual orientations just continues to grow.

The gathering for the presentation of “Religious Fundamentalism:  Strategies of Resistance” was a diverse group: a woman from Iran, a woman from Mexico, and an age 20-something young lesbian woman from the U.S who referred to herself as a “queer activist with scriptural underpinnings.”

Here are a few of their quotes about religious fundamentalists.  As you read them, remember that they would probably think that YOU are one.

Woman from Iran

• Religion is about absolutism and intolerance
• Women’s rights are the primary target of religious fundamentalists.
• They want to promote their worldview and gain power; they’re very organized and effective.
• Evangelicals, Catholics, and Mormons combine to prevent abortion and sexual rights.
• They stand for narrow and rigid gender roles.  They want to force the world to abide by their beliefs.

Woman from Mexico

• Opening statement:   “I’m here to tell you everything that you wanted to know about the Vatican, but were afraid to ask.”  [She mocked and degraded the Catholic Church throughout her remarks.]
• Religious Fundamentalists want to force the world to abide by their morals and they are entering mainstream politics and forming alliances.  [They even said this with a straight face after telling those gathered that they had to get involved in politics and form alliances to stop religious fundamentalists.]
• They want to co-opt governments to force their agenda on everyone else.
• Religious Fundamentalists blame social problems on “the disintegration of family” – they take advantage of it to blame the problems on women and the change in women’s roles.

Here was our personal favorite.  In admonishing the individuals in the room to get involved and stop religious fundamentalists in their tracks, she said:  “Use reason and science; it is on our side.  God is on our side.  God wants us to be happy and sexual pleasure is very important.” [So much for telling those assembled that references to religion and God were out-of-bounds for public discourse.]

Lesbian or “Queer Activist”

• Religion is in the air, in our schools, in our public square.
• Bible cannot be understood without a “feminist” lens.  It is not about Bible passages; it’s about power and control.
• The story of Sodom and Gomorrah isn’t about the Bible saying gays are evil; it’s about misogyny, the hatred of women.  Rape, violence, and abuse of women are the basis of the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.
• There is also a lot of misogyny on campuses that we visit [Christian-sponsored colleges] – oppression of gays and oppression of women go hand-in-hand.

The conclusion of the UFI team in attendance at this side event:

These women are desperate to have their ideology succeed and are shocked and dismayed that religion has a voice in the public square as well – so they want to silence that voice.  There is no recognition that religion is equally entitled to be engaged in the dialogue.

All who hold traditional, religious, hetero-normative values and beliefs need to not be cowed or intimidated by their rhetoric of “religious fundamentalist.”  Get out and get involved!  You must be making a difference or these national and international groups wouldn’t be getting together to develop strategies to stop you.

A “Man” playing on a Women’s Sports Team

George Washington University last week announced that Kye Allums (formerly Kay-Kay Allums) will be allowed to continue to play on the Women’s Basketball Team.  During her sophomore year, Allums began identifying as a male, but “is still biologically a female, and so will be able to continue playing on the women’s team—and to hold on to his scholarship.”  We quoted part of that last statement directly from the Huffington Post because we couldn’t figure out how to write all the delicate “he/she” references!

So let’s review:  Allums is a female who insists that she is a male and yet wants to continue to play on the women’s basketball team.  A “transgendered male” is evidently in the process of obtaining hormone treatments and gender reassignment surgery and the George Washington University administration is patting themselves on the back for being so tolerant and inclusive.

So what about equity?  Looking at the differences in physical size and strength between males and females, is it fair to have females playing on a male team or males playing on a female sports team?  Throughout sports history, the answer to that question has been an unqualified “No” and there have been numerous policies and procedures put in place to prevent that type of inequity from occurring.  But it appears we may be entering “a brave new world.”

If you read through “On the Team:  Equal Opportunity for Transgendered Student Athletes,” you will read a rousing defense of transgendered individuals on sports teams with the “equity” question addressed like this:

“A growing number of transgendered youth are undergoing medically guided hormonal treatment prior to puberty, thus effectively neutralizing this problem [unfair advantage due to growth in long bones, muscle mass and strength that is triggered by testosterone].  Transgendered girls [males] who transition in this way to not go through a male puberty.”

“There is a great deal of natural variation in physical size and ability among non-transgendered girls and boys [don’t buy into stereotypes on physical ability and stature and the difference in sexes].”

Here’s our predication:  You will have few, if any, transgendered males (females turned male) lining up to be on male sports teams.  Individuals who claim the title of “transgendered” might lie to themselves and mutilate their bodies in a futile attempt to be something that every cell of their body screams they are not.  But in the case of physical prowess in sports, biology simply won’t allow them that type of deceit.

This is a fictive world that these individuals, as well as those who pander to this type of tragic psychosis, live in.   And if things continue this direction, we all may be forced to participate in their charade.

To see more articles on the topic of Transgendered or Intersex, go here.