A Former Transgender Person’s Take on Obama’s Bathroom Directive, by Walt Heyer, 5/16/16
President Barack Obama, the titular
head of the LGBT movement, has added to the firestorm of confusion,
misunderstanding, and fury surrounding the transgender bathroom debate by
threatening schools with loss of federal funding unless they allow students to
join the sex-segregated restroom, locker room, and sports teams of their chosen
gender, without regard to biological reality.
I know firsthand what it’s like to
be a transgender person—and how misguided it is to think one can change gender
through hormones and surgery.
His action comes after weeks of
protests against the state of North Carolina for its so-called anti-LGBT
bathroom bill.
As someone who underwent surgery
from male to female and lived as a female for eight years before returning to
living as a man, I know firsthand what it’s like to be a transgender person—and
how misguided it is to think one can change gender through hormones and
surgery. And I know that the North Carolina bill and others like it are not
anti-LGBT.
“L” is for lesbian. The bill is not anti-lesbian because lesbians
have no desire to enter a stinky men’s restroom. Lesbians will use the women’s
room without a second thought. So the law is not anti-L.
“G” is for gay. Gay men have no interest in using women’s
bathrooms. So the law is not anti-G.
“B” is for bi-sexual. The “B” in the LGBT have never been confused
about their gender. Theirs is also a sexual preference only that doesn’t affect
choice of restroom or locker room.
“T” is for transgender. The “T” identifies a person who has
undergone hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery, and legally changes
the gender marker on his or her birth certificate.
The North Carolina law is not anti-T
because the law clearly states that the appropriate restroom is the one that
corresponds to the gender stated on the birth certificate. Therefore, a
transgender person with a birth certificate that reads “female” uses the female
restroom, even if the gender noted at birth was male. So, you see, the law is
not anti-LGBT. What then is all the uproar about?
What has arisen is a new breed
emerging among young people that falls outside the purview of the LGBT: the
gender nonconformists.
Gender nonconformists, who
constitute a miniscule fraction of society, want to be allowed to designate
gender on a fluid basis, based on their feelings at the moment.
I call this group “gender defiant”
because they protest against the definition of fixed gender identities of male
and female. The gender defiant individuals are not like traditional transgender
or transsexual persons who struggle with gender dysphoria and want hormone
therapy, hormone blockers, and eventually, reassignment surgery. The gender
defiant group doesn’t want to conform, comply, or identify with traditional
gender norms of male and female. They want to have gender fluidity, flowing
freely from one gender to another, by the hour or day, as they feel like it.
Under the cover of the LGBT, the
anti-gender faction and its supporters are using the North Carolina bathroom
bill to light a fuse to blow up factual gender definitions.
He does not grasp the biological
fact that genders are not fluid, but fixed: male and female.
Obama is championing the insanity of
eliminating the traditional definition of gender. He does not grasp the
biological fact that genders are not fluid, but fixed: male and female.
Using the power of his position to
influence the elimination of gender, overruling science, genetics, and biblical
beliefs, is Obama’s display of political power.
One fact will remain, no matter how
deep in the tank Obama goes for the gender nonconformists, genetics and
God’s design of male and female, no matter how repugnant that is to some,
cannot be changed. Biological gender remains fixed no matter how many
cross-gender hormones are taken or cosmetic surgeries are performed. No law can
change the genetic and biblical truth of God’s design. Using financial blackmail
to achieve the elimination of gender will become Obama’s ugly legacy.
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