The following comes from a May 9 LA Times article by Patrick McGreevy:
As other states restrict the ability of transgender people to choose which bathrooms to use, the California Assembly on Monday voted to make single-user restrooms in public and government buildings “all gender,” so that anyone can use any restroom.
Lawmakers also took initial action to prohibit taxpayer-funded travel to states whose policies are viewed as discriminatory to the transgender community.
Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) said his measure would make restrooms more convenient for women and for transgender Californians who may identify as a woman and feel uncomfortable using a restroom designated for men, and vice versa.
“While other states are making it tougher and more political to use the bathroom, today we can make it easier for everyone to use the bathroom by simply changing the sign on the door and allowing anyone to use it,” Ting said. “Today, let’s take the politics out of bathrooms and bring back common sense.”
The measure passed on a 52-18 vote after some Republicans objected to the change.
North Carolina is facing possible federal sanctions after enacting a law in March that requires people to use public restrooms that correspond with their gender at birth. The U.S. Department of Justice has determined HB 2 violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell) said he had North Carolina in mind in introducing AB 1887. Both bills next go to the Senate for consideration.
Ting says ‘it just makes common sense’ ! He must have a far different definition of ‘common sense’ than people who really HAVE ‘common sense’ do!!
I’m afraid Common Sense in politics in particular has left the station along time ago………
Some Ting Wong here!
there should be an impenetrable wall of separation
between bathroom and state
The man is completely mad. When a lady is abused by a pervert, and lawsuits ensue, what will he do then?
So I can’t even go to the bathroom in peace anymore, the government is allowing the invasion of my privacy. More and more women and children are unprotected in this culture. Who is there to stand up for us? This isn’t about ‘transgendered’ people somehow causing problems in bathrooms, this is about making things all so easy for heterosexual perverts and predators to harass women and girls, or worse.
YGP ~ That’s what transgender people are saying. A transgender person who has the physical chateristics of a man is going to feel weird going to the ladies room and as a lady I won’t be comfortable when “he” walks in. The whole controversy is stupis
I totally agree with Elizabeth. The inmates are running the asylum in California and have for far too long. What did transgender people do before the law changed. What bathroom did they use them?
Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, a leader of the Ruth Institute https://www.ruthinstitute.org/ noted:
” Some men are demanding the right to use women’s bathrooms.
Lesbian separatist feminist professor Sheila Jeffreys believes this is male privilege asserting itself over women. She has no patience with the idea that a man can be “trapped in a woman’s body.”
I agree with her. You probably do too. I didn’t expect to find an ally in a modern feminist. But I appreciate truth-telling wherever I find it.
Do you want to support a healthy gender identity in the young people you know? On our Graduation Gift Card I tell young people:
“You are not a gender-neutral, generic person, and you won’t become a gender neutral, generic parent either…
Your posts are always just TERRIFIC, Michael McDermott! I agree completely, we are each made MALE and FEMALE– NOT some crazy notion of “GENDER NEUTRAL!!” Americans all need to GROW UP and FACE REALTY!!! A man is a MAN and a woman is a WOMAN!! Even if you are a homosexual- you still have a distinct GENDER!! Each person has their own personality, but the gender they were born as– is either MALE or FEMALE!! Either one or the other! And it is always stated, on their birth certificate, too! The liberal “crazies” has just got to STOP, in this country!!
The very concept of self identification as to sex, race, etc sows it own seeds of destruction and society’s destruction. Why keep any statistics for affirmative action or equity. How can the government or anyone know the validity of their program when people are allowed to self identify. Who’s to say that half of a schools football team are not girls, thus meeting the goal of equal participation, regardless of their birth identity. Insanity come full circle.
Speaking of the ‘Big Picture’ as Mike Mcd mentions up top: The latest attack from the LGBT freight train coming to Catholic Hospitals via the ACLU. From pewsitter: ACLU launches campaign to strip Catholic hospitals of federal funds … more Maybe this is a good thing? No government funding = no telling Catholic Hospitals what they must do, in an attempt to compromise their beliefs. Even if it means no Catholic Hospitals? Folks, it’s really starting. This LGBT thing isn’t about ‘fairness’. It’s a tool for more government control using the unsuspecting/needy LGBT community.
If only the Baby Boomers (who now are aging, and had goofed-up kids, who now are grown, with kids of their own!)– if only they all could ACCEPT REALITY!! Grow up, adjust to society’s norms, and lead a good life! And NO– we DO NOT change bathrooms, to accommodate the CRAZY demands, of MENTALLY ILL people, with GENDER DYSPHORIA!! That is NOT COMMON SENSE!! Lots of people have disabilities, big and small, and lots of people have illnesses, of various kinds. And then, you have people of all shapes and sizes, and they all have to gracefully adjust to a norm, with GOOD MANNERS— in a public setting! That is COMMON SENSE!!
“LGBT freight train” FTP
I do so wish people would start using the even more ‘happy’ GILBERT term instead, as it is so much more inclusive.
BTW – The only ‘freight’ on this imaginary railroad is the Thought Police Propaganda pushing it.
Alinsky Tactics try to Appear more powerful than they are – leading others to pretend it is futile to stop runaway lunacy, Far better to steer safely and not let such Derail Society.
MMcD, Would you please explain the ‘happy’ GILBERT reference? The dictionary (no help) says, a magnetic unit, a masculine name. I do so want to be up to speed & inclusive. I assume: G = gay, I = I don’t know yet, L = Lesbian, B = Bisexual, E = Extraterrestrial, R = Rakish and T = Transexual but my guess at I, E & R is probably wrong. Please keep commenting. We in the pew look forward to your insightful replies, references, etc. EX: Alinsky Tactics. Right up there with Soros Agenda. Don’t see many people referencing them do you?
FTP: The ‘light hearted and gaily happy’ Euphemisms employed are designed to bias the ‘Politics of Adversarial Terminology’ – meaning Hide the Facts and provide nice sanitized ‘gaily happy’ terms instead.
Professor Adams re=arranges the terms to GILBERT, as with this ‘Joke’ too:
Faculty Restrooms: The New Civil Rights Frontier
By Mike Adams
https://townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/2016/05/03/faculty-restrooms-the-new-civil-rights-frontier-n2156864
Author’s Note: This modest proposal is offered in response to a recent faculty senate resolution at UNC-Wilmington. I doubt that the tenured sexual revolutionaries are Swift enough to get the point. However, in the name of diversity I am submitting it anyway.
Dear Faculty…
Re: GILBERT
“Queer Theories and Theologies
by Mike Adams
https://townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/2010/02/08/queer_theories_and_theologies
Some years ago, a man asked for my opinion on why his good friend, an atheist, had decided to go to Yale Divinity School.
I told him that the Enemy could do more harm trying to destroy an institution from within than from without.
And so it is with the so-called GLBT (Gilbert) movement. The Gilbert has equal rights.
He is not fighting for anything. He is only seeking to destroy anyone or anything that will not validate him. That is why only 4% of gays who live in states giving them a “right” to get married actually do get married
They do not seek to enjoy marriage. They seek to destroy…
Single person locked restrooms do make sense and could solve the whole problem; except in large population venues like in a stadium or a theater. It would take a lot of expense and area for so many bathrooms. I guess the transvestites will have to line up at the single bathrooms and the normal folks will just relieve themselves as usual.
Flush out the Low Down Dirty Bathroom Tactics of Cultural Marxism.
EDITORIAL Cultural Marxism: The Corruption of America | The Daily Bell
By Nelson Hultberg – July 27, 2010
“This is the basis of the great cultural war we’re undergoing….We are two countries now. We are two countries morally, culturally, socially, and theologically. Cultural wars do not lend themselves to peaceful co-existence. One side prevails, or the other prevails.”
https://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/nelson-hultberg-cultural-marxism-the-corruption-of-america/
I think there is some confusion with many of the responses.
These are single-user restrooms in public and government buildings that are made “all gender.” These are SINGLE-user restrooms, just like your home bathroom. One toilet in the room. Men can go. Women can go. Little boys and little girls. Just like in nearly every home in the country. It doesn’t matter what gender anyone identifies with – it’s a single-user restroom.
St Peter, yes that’s mostly right. Newer Malls have them.(single use) too. But my Target only has Women & Men restrooms. Ditto most large stores in my mall. Ditto sports facilities that never seem to have enough ladies rooms vs mens facilities. What about most schools? This goes back many years but my lower level schools (up to 12th grade) only had Boys and Girls bathrooms/locker rooms. Hope that helps explain ‘confusion’ VS ‘the issue’.
Last week Att Gen Lynch tersely told N Carolina to dump their bathroom law in 3 days. On Monday NC sued the DOJ over their heavy handed threat. On 5/13 Obama is sending a letter to all public schools that they must let students use the bathroom of their sexual identity or possibly lose federal money. This attack was well coordinated by the Obama gang and his LGBT community organizers. What next is Obama planning? What is his Oct surprise?
UCLA students threatened online for claiming ‘there are only two genders’
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=7579
Four University of California, Los Angeles students are facing a social media firestorm after posing for a photo with signs criticizing the the transgender bathroom movement.
– members of the College Republicans chapter at UCLA, attended an event last week featuring conservative columnist and activist Matt Walsh entitled “ An Encroachment on Liberty: How the Left Exploits Transgender Laws,” which was hosted by University of California at Santa Barbara students affiliated with Young Americans for Liberty.
The event focused on the recent controversies surrounding transgender individuals and laws regarding bathrooms and…
Breaking news story from the Chicago tribune.
Man accused of choking girl, 8, in South Loop restaurant bathroom. Mother went into (locked) stall to help her daughter. Fellow diners heard the scuffle and subdued the perp until police arrived & arrested/charged perp. So is this a coincidence? GLBT/Gilbert related or crazy man? Maybe both ‘acting up’ during the United State’s Bathroom Free-for-All (USBFFA).
It is much better, if people simply accept their disabilities, illnesses, and limitations, and learn to adjust to a norm, established for the majority of the population! Best to learn to adjust, and then to get on with life! It is unrealistic, to constantly live your life– expecting the world to cater to YOU!!! Also, one must be taught COURTESY and RESPECT FOR OTHERS!! If you show courtesy to others, and adjust to a norm, then others will be much more friendly to you! Putting up with the gender you were born as, and using the proper restroom– is a courtesy to others– especially, to delicate women and children!
A good way to solve this problem, is to have one single-use restroom installed, in all public or government buildings, to include schools.
I will add something, to my above post. A transgender should be told, that legally, he or she may ONLY use either the restroom of the gender they were born with– or else, use the single-use restroom. It is NOT FAIR to disturb and hurt others! Others deserve their legal rights to privacy, safety, and protection! Why in the world can’t the SELFISH, “liberal-hippie” Obama White House understand this??