The Department of Education is
demanding that an Illinois school district allow a boy who identifies as a girl
and plays sports on a girls’ team to have full
access to the locker room and showers with
the girls on the team. The district has only 30 days to comply, or it
stands to lose Title IX federal funding.
“Some things are so profoundly
stupid that, the fact is, it’s hard to respond to something like that,” said
Liberty Counsel Chairman Mathew Staver, who has also been in the news recently
as the lead counsel for Rowan County Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis
The
federal government’s decision follows
a 2013 legal challenge to Township High School District 211 that the boy filed
through the American Civil Liberties Union. The district allowed the unnamed
male to play on the girls’ team since he identifies as female but refused to
allow him to dress and shower with the girls. “All students deserve the
opportunity to participate equally in school programs and activities
– this is a basic civil right,” Assistant U.S. Secretary for Civil Rights
Catherine Lhamon said in a statement Monday.
The district issued a statement in
disagreement with the Department of Education ruling, saying its top concern
was protecting the privacy of its students. “We do not agree with (the DOE’s)
decision and remain strong in our belief that the District’s course of action,
including private changing stations in our locker rooms, appropriately serves
the dignity and privacy of all students in our educational environment,”
the statement read in part.
Staver said the district is
exactly right. “To say that this is a basic civil right for a young boy to use
a girls’ shower room and restroom is absolutely absurd,” he said. “Certainly,
these girls deserve privacy. They deserve respect. No one would expect that
while they’re in the shower, a boy is going to come into the same shower that
they’re in.”
He said an already slippery
slope just got much more slick. "This is just looking at objective
reality and saying it's something completely different from what it really
is," he said. "This is a bad precedent by this Department of
Education, and certainly it's coming from the very top at the president's
level. I think it sends a bad precedent, and I think it places children at risk
in these schools."
Staver said the absence of
logic can only lead this nation in one direction. "I think it's headed to
complete anarchy," he said. "I mean, this whole gender identity is
just a complete abolition of objective reality of the natural created order.
Whether people like it or not, or whether they want to admit it or not, there
are two sexes. There are males and females. There's men and women. There's boys
and girls. That's just the way it is." "There's not boys who can
think they're a woman and therefore become a woman and vice versa," Staver
added.
While the transgender movement
contends it is interested in equal rights, Staver said the whole movement is an
act of rebellion. "This is absolute objective reality, just completely
thrown aside," Staver said. "At the end of the day, it an absolute
rebellion against our Creator, who created you and I in His image and He
created male and female."
As for the Illinois case, Staver
urges the district to resist the demands from Washington. "I think the
school should not abide by this ruling. The school is placing all the other
students at risk, placing the parents at risk when they send their young girl
to a school," said Staver, who argued any right-thinking parent
should be appalled by such a policy spreading across the nation.
"How would you feel if boys
could come into the girls’ locker room?" he asked. "Imagine that if
when you were in school that boys could just walk into the girls shower room
while they're showering and in a stage of undress. That is opening up the door
to absolute abuse and harm that will be afflicted on these young girls. This is
wrong."
And he said parents should act and
act quickly. "Parents ought to protest to the ceiling at the next school
board meeting," Staver said. "They ought to demand some responsible
action by the school board that governs this. If they don't get the action,
then they ought to pull their children from school and put them in a different
school."
He has some long-tern advice as
well. "They ought to vote these people out of office," Staver said.
"They ought to not take this sitting down silently. The future of their
children, the sanctity and well-being of their sons and daughters and
grandchildren, is at stake."
Related columns: “Fake
females and their tax-supported hormone shots” "Feds to school: Let
transgender boy dress with girls"
http://www.wnd.com/2015/11/complete-anarchy-transgender-boy-hits-girls-showers/
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