The most outrageous provision of President
Obama’s transgender bathroom order does not even involve locker rooms where
teenagers of the opposite sex will change and shower next to one another;
rather, the most offensive part of the new policy is that, under the Obama Administration’s
federal guidance:
School districts must allow biological males and females to spend
the night together in the same hotel room on field trips;
Colleges must let men who say they are transgender be roommates
with one or more women; and
School officials cannot even tell those young women or their
parents in advance that their new roommate is a man, without risking a federal
lawsuit.
This plain wording of the Obama Administration’s
order is clear enough, yet it has not been reported, even by conservative news
outlets.
The 8-page letter clearly states that, as far as
the Justice Department and the Department of Education are concerned, a student
becomes a member of the opposite sex the moment he feels like it. The instant he tells school officials about
his decision, they must immediately treat him accordingly:
“When a student or the student’s parent or guardian, as
appropriate, notifies the school administration that the student will assert a
gender identity that differs from previous representations or records, the
school will begin treating the student consistent with the student’s gender
identity.”
In other words: The student doesn’t
have to meet any other conditions to change his sex – in fact, school districts
are prohibited from setting any. The
Administration’s unilateral rewrite states: “Under Title IX, there is no
medical diagnosis or treatment requirement that students must meet as a
prerequisite to being treated consistent with their gender identity,” the
letter says. A student doesn’t have to
have surgery, take hormone treatments, or present himself in any way as a
member of the opposite sex. He can
continue looking and acting as a male, but say he identifies as a female.
Just as there is no minimum threshold required
to qualify as transgender, there is no maximum limit to the number of times a
student can change genders. “For some
people, gender is not just about being male or female,” CNN reported. “In fact, how
one identifies can change every day or even every few hours.”
So, theoretically, one could be male during
homeroom, female during gym class, then male again before he gets on the bus –
and the school district is bound to comply every step of the way.
Tucked away in the Administration’s letter is a
section requiring schools to provide transgender students proper “housing”:
“A school must allow transgender students to access housing
consistent with their gender identity, and may not require transgender students
to stay in single-occupancy accommodations or to disclose personal information
when not required of other students.”
The Administration’s 25-page booklet of proposed
policies approvingly cites a local Colorado school district, which says
teachers must embrace “the goals of maximizing the [transgender] student’s
social integration and equal opportunity to participate in overnight activity
and athletic trips, ensuring the [transgender] student’s safety and comfort,
and minimizing stigmatization of the [again, transgender] student.”
The president’s adopted hometown of Chicago is
more insistent:
“In no case should a transgender student be denied the right to
participate in an overnight field trip because of the student’s transgender
status.”
So, any individual who says he is a member of
the opposite sex must be allowed to spend the night in the same room as members
of the opposite biological sex for his “social integration” and “comfort.”
Here is what these means: Suppose a teenage boy
discovers he is “transgender” just in time to spend the night in his girlfriend’s
hotel room? … or the hotel room of a girl who is decidedly not his girlfriend? He must be allowed to do so without a
chaperone, unless there’s an adult in every room. [Don’t forget, under civil rights law, there
can be no unequal treatment.] If
transgender students are chaperoned but “other” girls aren’t, that’s profiling
and could trigger a federal civil rights lawsuit from the social justice
warriors in the Obama Administration or its like-minded successors. Obama’s already acted to establish unisex
bedrooms on field trips. Three years
ago, the Obama Administration sided with a transgender female after California’s
Arcadia Unified School District refused to let her “bunk with [her] buddies” on
a seventh grade overnight field trip. The
Obama Administration forced a settlement on the school district, which agreed
to the teenager’s requests for hotel rooms during “overnight events and
extracurricular activities on and off campus, consistent with [her] gender
identity.” Obama is now taking this
nationwide.
School officials cannot alert the girls’ parents
that a biological male will be sleeping in their room because, under guidelines
quoted by the Obama Administration, they can’t even tell the boy’s parents:
“School personnel should speak with the student first before
discussing a student’s gender nonconformity or transgender status with the
student’s parent or guardian.”
The Arcadia settlement – again, dictated by the
Obama Administration – says the child’s birth sex must be “treated as
confidential” by school officials and cannot be disclosed without “express written
consent.”
So, your daughter may not know she will be
spending the night with a boy until she gets to her hotel room.
Mind you: This guidance doesn’t just apply to
high schools, but to colleges as well. In
the next blog posting I’ll address the college scene.
Rev. Dr.
Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor,
Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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