LGBTQ supporters are crying foul over the Texas House passage of a watered-down bathroom bill
Under Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s threat to force a special session, the Texas House passed a watered down bathroom bill that, unlike the Senate version which applies to all public facilities, applies only to public schools.
The House version was attached at the last minute Sunday night to another bill. It prohibits transgenders from using the public school bathroom of their choice. However the House bill requires schools to have a single-occupancy bathroom for those students who don’t want to use the facilities designated for their biological sex.
Houston’s Rep. Senfronia Thompson cried foul. “I was living through that [Jim Crow] era. Bathrooms divided us then, and it divides us now,” she told the House. “America has long recognized that separate but equal is not equal at all.”
I know this is not politically correct, but when we’re talking about transgenders, we could actually be talking about mentally ill people. Dr. Joseph Berger is a prominent Canadian psychiatrist in Toronto whose list of credentials establishes him as a mental illness expert. Dr. Berger believes that people who identify themselves as transgendered are mentally ill or simply unhappy. Accordingly, he has pointed out that hormone therapy and surgery are not appropriate treatments for psychosis or unhappiness.
Bruce Jenner is a perfect example of Dr. Berger’s diagnosis. Brucella – oops, I mean Caitlyn – waited until his 60s to decide he was really a woman. And that was after three marriages and fathering six children, two with each of his wives. He didn’t develop a gender identification problem until he got mixed up with the Kardashians. I’ll believe Caitlyn is a woman when Jenner can get pregnant.
So here we are fighting over bathrooms in order to accommodate a bunch of nut cases. No one knows yet what the final version of the bathroom bill will be when it reaches the desk of Gov. Greg Abbott.
Even the watered down version of the House bill has the LGBTQ groups and their politically correct supporters all exercised. Chuck Smith, CEO of Equality Texas says, “Targeting some of the most vulnerable children in our state is abhorrent, shameful, and disgraceful. The Texas lawmakers of the 85th legislative session are on wrong side of history.”
The wrong side of history? Smith must mean the politically correct version of history. From the founding of our country until a relatively few years ago, no one worried about who used which bathroom. The simple rule of law was, if you had a dick you used the ‘boys/men’ bathroom and if you did not have a dick you used the ‘girls/ladies’ bathroom. And that’s the way it should continue to be.
neither here nor there says
I know quite a few people that are transgender and I will put them against the person that is called president and anyone that is capable of rational thinking will pick the guy sitting as president being the nut case.
FYI I supported and support men in men bathrooms and women and women’s bathroom but find no excuse for getting into name calling, what does one wish to accomplish with that?
JS says
neither here nor there,
LOL, sure you do. Sheesh. BTW, the guy that is “called president” is President. Just so you understand.
Maybe you sir are the nut case.
Just Sayin’
DanMan says
It seems so antiquated to include the ‘B’ in LGBQT. The B stands for Bi, which implies swings both ways sexually. But we are told this is a gender issue and the science of gender has now evolved scientifically to mean ‘whatever you want to declare yourself as’.
Heck even the T is a bit out of step as it reduces gender to genitalia manipulation and cosmetic surgery. What if you have an addadictomy and then decide you still want to identify as a women. I mean if a man can be a woman and vise-versa, why can’t a man trans to a woman that identifies as a man?
And if he did, would he be a lesbian? a male lesbian?
The only acronym in that string of identifiers (oh how gauche right?) is the ‘Q’ for questioning and it applies to everybody. Everybody questioning what the hey they are dealing with.
Paul A Kubosh says
Neither,
.”….no excuses for name calling,…..”
Have you ever read your posts. You are a person full of hate.
neither here nor there says
Paul you are wrong, I don’t have hate, just a lot of facts. If I am wrong in my statements that you find hateful prove them wrong.
As to JS he has no knowledge about me, but I certainly know more about Trump, so his opinion is like all opinions he is entitled to it,
But you have seen my other posts, do I believe that a man belongs in a men’s bathroom?
DanMan says
It sure seems all the yelping about climate science IS NOT WEATHER is being trans common sense by the Q’s since the science now says gender and sexuality ARE the same.
However the Q’s agitiating on both gorebull worming and xe and xer contemplation are from the same tribe so there is that consistency.
Howie Katz says
Dan, as I understand it, the Q stands for Queer.
DanMan says
Sorry Howie but even the identity mavens know Q is too redundant in this context. But hey it still works! Lump all of the lot into queer and it still works!
I mean really, if their is no gender then why does it matter of you are gay male or female or lesbian male or female? When gender is so fluid to your identity it has no meaning to your identity. You are what you say you are.
Doesn’t mean those of us that don’t care to participate in the game have to go along but we ain’t angling for that anyway. And neither are the Qs.
Pat Bryan says
If it is not in the DSM-5, then it is obsolete quackery. There is so much aristotelian cogitation with absolutely no evidence or facts going on on the subject of transgenders and gender dysphoria. In fact, if any of the ‘experts’ here were presented with the facts and evidence, they would certainly dismiss them as interfering with their preconceived notions based on…on… what?
David Jennings says
Pat Bryan,
“absolutely no evidence or facts going on on the subject of transgenders and gender dysphoria”
Well, well, we agree on something. No facts at all, just confused individuals.
No facts except, of course, anatomy.
Skeptic says
Is it anatomy or is it what’s on the birth certificate? Would you permit a person born as male, but undergoes gender reassignment surgery to use a women’s restroom? That’s not what the legislature is doing – their definition of biological sex is strictly by the birth certificate.
DanMan says
Let’s get to the logical conclusion. All restrooms should be single head with no labels on the doors. If individual privacy can settle the abortion debate surely it could do the same for restrooms.
And then you could limit the usage to private members of the club you are in. The dinner club. The sporting club. The movie club. Every endeavor could have special accommodations for club members. Like dry counties in Kansas that allow restaurants to provide diners club memberships during their visit.
And then when you find yourself in any of those establishments that has one of those “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone” signs and they don’t give you a membership, you can deal with what you have wrought.
I call this concept civil obedience.
DanMan says
…provide diners club memberships during their visit in order to have a cocktail.
fat albert says
If a person walked down the street proclaiming to one and all that he was in fact Julius Caesar. If he wore a toga, or roman armor, even if he spoke in common latin, we would still conclude that he was in fact a very troubled individual who was in need of treatment. We ( at least rational people) would not decide that the best thing would be to concede that he was in fact Julius Caesar and treat him as such. And, the fact is that a man who decides that he is in fact a woman (or vice versa) is just as deluded as the man who decides he is Julius Caesar.
For 99.99{997ab4c1e65fa660c64e6dfea23d436a73c89d6254ad3ae72f887cf583448986} of us, our gender is assigned to us genetically and irrevocably at conception. Unless you can figure out how to change the genetic code of every cell in a person’s body, you cannot change their gender. You can change their outward appearance, but that doesn’t change who they are. The sooner we start helping these persons to move past their delusions, instead of enabling them, the better off we will be as a society.
DanMan says
dang, there goes albert being all rational and stuff
Skeptic says
And for the 0.01{997ab4c1e65fa660c64e6dfea23d436a73c89d6254ad3ae72f887cf583448986}, do we just disregard them? In the US that’s over 3 million people!
DanMan says
eh…um 0.01{997ab4c1e65fa660c64e6dfea23d436a73c89d6254ad3ae72f887cf583448986} of our population is about 33,000 people. I’m going to ask a question I’m pretty sure I know the answer to you’ll give.
Is there a number small enough that makes it okay to dismiss the bleatings of the Qs?
fat albert says
Actually, Skeptic, in the US that’s about 30,000 (0.01{997ab4c1e65fa660c64e6dfea23d436a73c89d6254ad3ae72f887cf583448986} of 300 Million). For those people who have genetic abnormalities there are a plethora of medical services and/or treatments to assist them with their medical condition. Just like any other person who has a genetic medical condition.